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This article is just wrong about the facts. Doctorow says "Anticircumvention law originates in the USA", but anticircumvention law originates in the WIPO Copyri
by SpicyLemonZest 10mo ago
This article is just wrong about the facts. Doctorow says "Anticircumvention law originates in the USA", but anticircumvention law originates in the WIPO Copyright Treaty, which all EU members and all their major trade partners are signatory to. The DMCA was passed to 2 years after this treaty was signed to implement the American obligations under it.
- jauntywundrkind 10mo agoWhere did the WIPO come from SpicyLemonZest? Where huh where? Honk (It was shaped and driven by US and other big business interests.)
- SpicyLemonZest 10mo agoThe “and” is doing a lot of work there! You have to respond to US aggression by targeting US interests - it completely defeats the point to do things that also hurt your other trade partners and domestic big businesses. Do European big businesses (or Japanese big businesses) not want anticircumvention laws?
- Kim_Bruning 10mo agoSome large businesses probably do WANT anti-circumvention laws , but that doesn't mean it's good for them. Kids always want more sugar than is good for them too. Those kinds of laws are great for incumbent moats, much less for innovation. Compare eg. China. (or early USA or Japanese industrialization)
- mentalfist 10mo agoWell, many jurisdictions copied or were pressured to adopt DMCA-like language, especially via trade agreements. Modern, expansive, DMCA-style anticircumvention regime that now dominates global law can be said to originate from the US.