cdanteek Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 article "Digital preservation" sounds simple enough; just slap that data onto increasingly cheap and spacious hard drives, keep some offsite backups, and you're good to go, right? Not so fast, says the Library of Congress, and it points a crabbed and bony finger directly at US copyright law—and at DRM. The 200-page report is remarkably thorough and includes analysis from several other countries on how their own copyright laws pose problems for libraries' digital preservation efforts. Suggestions are of course offered—much the same ones that were offered several months ago by another study group—but we have yet to hear of any momentum on Capitol Hill for this type of DMCA reform. Certainly, nothing on the issue will be done this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 When you consider that the Brit Government granted copyright in perpetuity of Peter Pan to Great Ormonde Street Childrens' Hospital (given originally to GOSH by Barrie) and certain US media companies and publishers are trying to get your government to toss that out, did you really expect that they would actually DO anything ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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