[Coco] Re: Help simplify copyright law for scholars, artists. Public comment period ends soon!

[John E. Malmberg]

I like the idea, however most of the cases that I can see affecting COCO 
and computer hobbyist is where the copyright holder decides to just 
ignore requests, or worse just arbitrarily deny them.  While they also 
seem to ignore non-commercial violations of the copyrights for obsolete 
software, it does not weaken the copyright on it.

As near as I can tell, they are only looking at the case where the 
copyright holder can not be located.

Some copyright holders do take their videos off the market for periods 
of time to prevent market saturation, and they have strong lobbying 
power as has been demonstrated.

It looks like for computer hobbyists it is a case of either finding the 
original media, or reverse engineering a replacement such as was done 
with the NITROS project.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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