[Year 12 IT Apps] Copyright - The Next Generation

[Mark]

Welcome to the next level of copyright, folks.

"In a particularly spectacular display of corporate delusion, John
Deere—the world’s largest agricultural machinery maker —told the Copyright
Office that farmers don’t own their tractors. Because computer code snakes
through the DNA of modern tractors, farmers receive “an implied license for
the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”

It’s John Deere’s tractor, folks. You’re just driving it.

Several manufacturers recently submitted similar comments to the Copyright
Office under an inquiry into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. DMCA is
a vast 1998 copyright law that (among other things) governs the blurry line
between software and hardware. The Copyright Office, after reading the
comments and holding a hearing, will decide in July which high-tech devices
we can modify, hack, and repair—and decide whether John Deere’s twisted
vision of ownership will become a reality."


http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/

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Mark Kelly
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