Re: WIPO Copyright Treaty Article 11 & Grammar

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Bob Stock <bstock[_at_]ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> How about if we change the paragraph to read as follows:
>
> a technological protection measure 'effectively protects a right of a
> copyright owner' under this title if the measure, in the ordinary course
> of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits copying,
> preparing derivative works, distributing, etc.
>
> Does that make it more understandable? In other words, the copyright
> owner has put in a measure that in some fashion prevents someone
> else from doing anything with the work that only the copyright owner has
> the exclusive right to do, and that someone else can't try to get around
> that measure.

This comes close to declaring that in order to be in violation of this provision, the offender must infringe a copyright. This is something to which the backers of the proposal will not agree. Hence, in my opinion, the reason for the original circularity.

Bob Schwartz
<shebam[_at_]access.digex.net> Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 15:49:52 GMT