Copyright
Thanks to sethf: the Library of Congress (they of the incredibly beautiful reading room, but sometimes lamentable statutory duties) is holding another DMCA anticircumvention exemptions rulemaking. Where did those three years go?
Dan Bricklin argues that the right to create derivative works is important, in connection with the Eldred case; I was thinking exactly the same thing as I watched the oral argument. Sometimes people, including Justices of the Supreme Court, forget that copyright has expanded to include derivative work rights and public performance rights and digital public performance of sound recording rights and now even anticircumvention paracopyright rights. It's not just about literal copying.
As we reported, the time for public comment on the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was extended to December 6 (apparently in response to a request by Public Knowledge, CDT, and Consumers Union).
Via Felten, politicians are saying:
the general purpose computer is a threat, not only to copyright but to our entire future.
Maybe we will all get pushdown automata in the future instead of Turing machines. "Eat low on the food chain, code low on the Chomsky hierarchy."
