Re: DMCA hearings and protests

To Eric Eldred:

I don't understand your introducing the matter of eBay's offering of a device for sale and, according to your report, the offering's being withdrawn in response to a request from a group alleging some sort of unstated infringement.

Since this was a device -- you describe it as a galvanometer -- it clearly never enjoyed copyright protection (you say it had been the subject of a patent but that the patent had expired).

Your message is posted in response to my comment on the DMCA, but this matter obviously had nothing to do with copyright or with the DMCA, and the withdrawal of an electrical device from sale, for whatever reason, has nothing to do with the subject of discussion here.

--Dodi Schultz
  <schultz[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Sat May 27 2000 - 16:38:26 GMT