Does this ruling indirectly legitimizes DRM removal tools?
I mean, without them, how can you resell a license?
Then again, the EU has anti-circumvention rules similar to those in the DMCA.
I mean, without them, how can you resell a license?
Then again, the EU has anti-circumvention rules similar to those in the DMCA.
Oh? Didn't know that. Got a source/details/explaination/more information?
Strictly the DRM doesn't prevent resale it prevents use. From the little I've seen I think they've erred away from suggesting their is any onus on the creator to enable the resale or indeed the reuse.
I only skimmed it but doesn't it merely allow you to complain; the SoS won't necessarily take any action.
Do you know what this section is directed towards? It appears to be something like forcing a company to hand over data necessary to allow a researcher to work with the companies copyright materials??
Note there's a bulletin, http://www.share-the-vision.org.uk/bulletins/bulletin_70.doc, from Aug 2010 where it says that section has never been applied (see also page 2 of http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file51998.pdf).