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Written by tinfoil
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 06:34
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"Digital preservation" sounds simple enough; just slap that data onto increasingly cheap and spacious hard drives, keep some offsite backups, and you're good to go, right? Not so fast, says the Library of Congress, and it points a crabbed and bony finger directly at US copyright law—and at DRM. But copyright law also hampers important work being done at places like the Library of Congress, and a major new report on the issue from the Library points out the problems with the current rules. One big issue is the exemption for published works in a library's collection; these can also be copied three times, but only to "replace a work in their collections that is damaged, deteriorating, lost or stolen or whose format has become obsolete." In other words, librarians can't backup or archive such works until destruction is well under way. Source. DRM only stops honest people, and the content industry needs to come to that realization quickly.
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