Author: JT Smith
From the New York Times (free registration required): “Call it the digital copyright equivalent of
having your cake but not being able to
eat it. The case of Dmitri Sklyarov, a
Russian computer programmer arrested last
month in Las Vegas, is drawing attention to a
double bind in the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, a 1998 law that some legal experts say
extends rights to consumers even as it
effectively prevents them from exercising
those rights.”
having your cake but not being able to
eat it. The case of Dmitri Sklyarov, a
Russian computer programmer arrested last
month in Las Vegas, is drawing attention to a
double bind in the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, a 1998 law that some legal experts say
extends rights to consumers even as it
effectively prevents them from exercising
those rights.”
