Dé Déar, 2003-12-11 ag 11:13, scríobh Ian Clarke:
What about:
"which has a limited purpose or use other than to facilitate the infringement of copyright law through circumvention of a rights protection measure".
I have removed "commercially significant" as I can't for the life of me see what that phrase achieves.
I don't know either but in the Directive it states in Article 6.2b:
Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the manufacture, import, distribution, sale, rental, advertisement for sale or rental, or possession for commercial purposes of devices, products or components or the provision of services which: [...]
(b) have only a limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent[...] any effective technological measures.
But technological measures are later defined to mean "any technology, device or component that, in the normal course of its operation, is designed to prevent or restrict acts, in respect of works or other subject-matter, which are not authorised by the rightholder of any copyright or any right related to copyright as provided for by law"
So does that mean that technological measures aren't technological measures when they prevent or restrict acts which *are* authorised by law?
David