R. Polk Wagner teaches intellectual property law at the University of Pennsylvania. Previous Politech message: "Princeton student is latest to say he could be sued under DMCA" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04198.html -Declan --- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:55:51 -0500 Subject: Re: FC: Princeton student is latest to say he could be sued under DMCA From: "R. Polk Wagner" <polkat_private> To: <declanat_private> Message-ID: <BA08F5A7.4059%polkat_private> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021125170809.02ab0938at_private> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Yes, the thought that this guy would be sued is ridiculous. The interesting point is that the fact that these sort of "the DMCA is killing me" claims get continuing media play is powerful evidence that the RIAA is still paying for the utter fiasco of the original threat against Felten. This points out yet another example of a real constraint on the content companies: overreaching is likely to have long-term negative effects in the all-important sphere of public/political opinion. Polk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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