rcpitt's Journal: Maybe a novel way of looking at Copyright in light of DRM

Abstract from my article on FTAA that has relevance to Copyright, DMCA, Digital Rights Management, etc.

If "publishing" (in the context of when the copyright act takes effect for a work) were taken (by the courts for instance) to be defined only as that done without any rights management or extra contractual ties, then all works not so published (with DRM) would then become trade secrets (or something to that effect) and would lose (or never gain) the protection of the government via the copyright act and have to go after civil damages for individual transgressors.

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