EUCD draft available (was: Re: [Fsfe-ie] EU direcitves being rushed into Ireland before presidency)

Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at member.fsf.org
Wed Dec 10 17:29:58 CET 2003


Update: I'm an idiot: The Information Society Directive is the EUCD

Time to get our skates on.

Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> writes:

> There is another dangerous ambiguity here.  What if the device's
> purpose is to "circumvent any rights protection measure" for the
> purpose of allowing fair use/dealing?

> A rewording to address this problem might be:
> 
>  > "which has only a limited commercially significant purpose or use
>  > other than to circumvent a rights protection measure to facilitate the
>  > infringement of copyright law"

This looks good.

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