http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/taxonomy/term/425/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5012 <p><a href="//www.dajv.de/en/index.php”">The German American Lawyers Association</a> held last Wednesday in Berlin a panel discussion titled <a href="//www.wilmerhale.com/de/veranstaltungen/whEventsDetail.aspx?firmEvent=1639”">The Current of Ideas in Cyber Society.</a> Patrick Strauch, the German Managing Director of <a href="//www.sonyatv.com/languages.php”">Sony/ATV Music Publishing</a> (sitting rather uncomfortably in his chair as the industry's advocate vs. Prof. Larry Lessig) offered his views about some of the topics that are usually discussed in these forums. Presumably still under the impact of the <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal”">rootkit disaster</a>, Mr. Strauch expressed disillusionments about DRMs and their capacity to fulfill the promise of content control in the cyber-environment. (As if to add insult to injury, the Librarian of Congress, upon recommendations of the Register of Copyrights, declared in its recent <a href="//www.copyright.gov/1201/”">2006 DMCA Rulemaking</a> - pp. 53-64 in the Register’s report of Nov. 17, 2006 - a new “rootkit exemption” allowing circumvention of such mechanisms for purpose of finding security vulnerabilities.)</p> <p><a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5012">read more</a></p> http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5012#comment intellectual property anti-circumvention drm sony Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:56:07 -0800 Zohar Efroni 5012 at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu