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> - The Appstore model will eventually have to change so that people can resell the apps they purchased Unfortunately, courts have upheld the special protectio

• Silhouette 5y ago
  Just to be clear, the courts in these parts don't have any choice about that. If statute law provides for those protections, the courts must decide cases accordingly (unless, for example, they are found to conflict with some sort of human rights law that has priority). What is particularly unfortunate in these cases is that a lot of the worst copyright-related requirements aren't even set by national governments (or other quasi-democratic bodies like the EU) but rather in the back rooms of international conferences where there is then a big vote on some big international agreement that includes them. Then everyone gets to make a DMCA or EUCD or other local equivalent that does nasty things like adding DRM protections that effectively nullify half of the copyright bargain, and they can mutter something about "international law" or "treaty obligations" and point the finger at some nebulous, unaccountable international diplomacy exercise to deflect the blame.