{"id":3602,"date":"2004-10-01T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/10\/01\/bnetd-loses-huge-in-dmca-contracts-c"},"modified":"2006-11-04T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T18:32:37","slug":"bnetd-loses-huge-in-dmca-contracts-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/10\/01\/bnetd-loses-huge-in-dmca-contracts-case\/","title":{"rendered":"bnetd Loses Huge in DMCA &amp; Contracts Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a815\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/doc\/2004\/bnetd_30sep.pdf\">This <\/a>is about as bad as it could get.  The court follows <em>Bowers<\/em> and affirms that copyright holders can override copyright&#8217;s limitations via contract.  Moreover, the court rejects bnetd&#8217;s argument under the reverse engineering exception of the DMCA. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000692.html\">Felten<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>EFF&#8217;s got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/archives\/2004_09.php#001962\">press release<\/a> up.  The appeal brief will, I would expect, involve reference to <em>Skylink.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/importance\/archives\/026273.php\">Ernest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sethf.com\/infothought\/blog\/archives\/000708.html\">SethF <\/a>are on the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is about as bad as it could get. The court follows Bowers and affirms that copyright holders can override copyright&#8217;s limitations via contract. Moreover, the court rejects bnetd&#8217;s argument under the reverse engineering exception of the DMCA. (via Felten) EFF&#8217;s got a press release up. The appeal brief will, I would expect, involve reference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}