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Iridium Zeppelin (bananarama@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:14:55 JST Iridium Zeppelin
- Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧
@jeffcliff Did you see this? https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/06/huge-win-for-copyright-user-rights-in-canada-federal-court-rules-digital-lock-rules-do-not-trump-fair-dealing/
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  Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing - Michael Geist
  
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  The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair dealing. Rather, the two must co-exist in harmony, leading to an interpretation that users can still rely on fair dealing even in cases involving those digital locks. The decision could have enormous implications for libraries, education, and users more broadly as it seeks to restore the copyright balance in the digital world. The decision also importantly concludes that merely requiring a password does not meet the standard needed to qualify for copyright rules involving technological protection measures. If this all sounds technical, this post provides the necessary background and then reviews the decision.
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  Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:15:02 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧
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  @bananarama whaaaaaat
  
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  @bananarama there's no way this isn't going to the supreme court
  
  but there's a good chance this will hold there
  
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  Iridium Zeppelin (bananarama@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 12:19:40 JST Iridium Zeppelin
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  @jeffcliff ya this is lit
  
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  @bananarama :party_face: :partyblob:
  
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  > cites (The Canadian Pacific Railway Co v Robinson, [1891] 19 SCR 292).
  
  so canadian
  
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  Iridium Zeppelin (bananarama@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 13:58:42 JST Iridium Zeppelin
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  @jeffcliff A potential downside for you: it could make proprietary software easier to access. There are several features in Matlab and ANSYS that their FOSS equivalents do not have and this would potentially mean that libraries could distribute licenses for research and private study.
  
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  @bananarama i'll take it
  
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