[free-sklyarov] Security warning draws DMCA threat

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
> 33. Defendants Jansson and Skala tortiously and unjustifiably
> converted Cyber Patrol for their own use.

Tortious conversion?  That's a new one by me.

> 	For pure formats, I think that would fail because of the following
> constraint:
> 
>         (B) a technological measure ''effectively controls access to a
>           work'' if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation,
>           requires the application of information, or a process or a
>           treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>           access to the work.
> 
> 	Microsoft isn't the copyright owner of the files.

So?  That's not what the law says.

Microsoft is _A_ copyright holder for documents represented in SOME files
held in Word format.  I think that gives them standing to bring suit
against anyone who "circumvents" the "access control" that is the Word
document format.

J.
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