Copyright hearings in Palo Alto and DC

**T* A* <t*@growingedge.com>**

In regards to the disappearing concept of copyright; this interesting  
little tidbit in the Federal Register showed up a few days ago about  
hearings on circumvention of copyright protection systems...:

http://frwebgate1.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/PDFgate.cgi?WAISdocID=884464409930+0+2+0&WAISaction=retrieve

Scroll down the middle column of the first page and under Library of  
Congress Copyright Office...what are your interpretations of this? To  
me it is weird.

My interpretation of the title "Exemption to Prohibition on  
Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control"  
means defeating copyright protection to enable non-infringing uses for  
entities like Google.

I have sort of accepted and resigned myself to modern day copyrights  
are becoming more and more useless and "quaint" (much like the Bushies  
calling The Constitution "quaint")  in the internet age where  
everything is supposed to be "free" and if it isn't, the thieves will  
just take it anyway one way or another.

Is the government legalizing the thievery with these hearings and  
subsequent proposals that will come out of the hearings?

Tom Alexander
tom@growingedge.com

On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:51 AM, gardenwriters-request@lists.ibiblio.org  
wrote:

> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:45:32 -0400
> From: "Peter Loewer" <thewildgardener@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] A change in subject
> To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
> 	<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> GWL: Google has pledged to see the end of libraries in under ten  
> years. They look ahead to the time when no scanning will be  
> necessary because everything will be online. This discussion-- 
> including the demise of eight-track--has nothing to do with growing  
> old but with the continued advances in technology that will end in  
> complete computer domination and the masscult taking over. This is  
> Tron brought up to date and to a fearful conclusion. Go out and  
> garden! Peter

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