I was reading a post on Slashdot about Microsoft pissing about a
huge thread on there about its "embracing and engulfing" the Kerberos
standard in its Windows 2000 product (see
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/02/158204 ).
The thread had links to a legal analysis of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (
http://www.whitmorelaw.com/Copyright/dmca-analysis.html ).
Here's a link to the actual legislation
(
http://www.hrrc.org/2281enrolled.pdf ). Although the first article is
written from the perspective of service provider liability, I can't help but
wonder what it means for us (as providers of the "content") in light of the
recent goings on with Napster and MP3.
For example, although I acknowledge the copyrights of the various
owners of the printed materials on my Web site (the AIM documents, for
example, since Rockwell is still around), I do not have explicit permission
from Rockwell to make those materials available. I'm sure that many of us in
our preservation efforts have a mixture of documents from defunct companies
and from live ones (but for which the products have been long discontinued).
How do we protect ourselves? My plan, frankly, is to continue with
my efforts until someone tells me to stop.
Thoughts?
Rich
Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 12:51:07 BST