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But Wait, There’s More

But Wait, There’s More

  • There are many, many more problems.

    • I’ve almost completely skipped the intellectual property issues. The American Intellectual Property Law Association (10,000 copyright, patent and trademark lawyers) opposed UCITA because it goes beyond current federal law in creating and protecting publishers’ rights. (The Committee of Copyright and Literary Property of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York reached the same conclusion.)
    • Think of UCITA as copyright on steroids, without the counter-balancing public interest provisions underlying the Copyright Act.

  • And then there’s “self-help” which allows publishers to put a back door in the code that lets them remotely shut down the software. What happens when 3rd parties discover that back door?

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