Posted by PTravel on 07/11/06 23:53

"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
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> "Frank" wrote ...
>> P.S. I like the judge's comment that "The right to control the content
>> of the copyrighted work...is the essence of the law of copyright." I'm
>> sure that "PTravel" would agree with this.
>
> So will they start printing books and magazines with titanium pages so
> you can't tear out pages? Will they have to remove the fast forward
> buttons from VCRs and DVD players? Will they require us to keep
> our eyelids open with toothpicks and handcuff us so we can't cover
> our ears when we go the the movies? Will they remove all the chapter
> points in DVDs so we can't go to our favorite part? This is absurd.
> I can't wait for it to get to the Supremes.

The ruling addressed the preparation of unauthorized derivative works, i.e.
copies that included substantial parts of the original, without the
authorization of the copyright owner. None of the examples you provided are
related to the suit, which involved companies that made unauthorized, edited
_copies_ of commercial DVDs without permission.


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