Re: [Cdn-DMCA] Rights Management Information - some thoughts..

From: mskala _-at-_ ansuz.sooke.bc.ca
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:55:39 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Kristofer Coward wrote:
> AFAIK, the government is basically proposing that something lying
> somewhere between an URL and an ISBN can be attached to any copyrighted
> file to serve the purpose of the COPYING file, except it is protected
> in its own right, instead of beinf part of the terms of the
> republication license.

Not the government - this proposal is coming from the privilege holder
groups; and (under the RMI heading, anyway) they appear to be primarily
concerned with *identifying* the work.
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Matthew Skala
mskala@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca                    Embrace and defend.
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