Copyright Warnings Trampling Over Consumers Rights – Google, Microsoft And Others To Contest
Diehard baseball fans can recite by heart the familiar copyright warnings that run with every game on television.
Now, a computer-industry trade group is crying foul, saying those warnings and others like it on movies and books are trampling over consumers' rights to fair use of copyrighted content.
Today, the Computer and Communications Industry Association -- a group representing companies including Google Inc., Microsoft Inc. and other technology heavyweights -- plans to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that several content companies, ranging from sports leagues to movie studios to book publishers, are overstepping bounds with their warnings. The group wants the FTC to investigate and order copyright holders to stop wording warnings in what it sees as a misrepresentative way.
Games, Books, Movies, Copyright, Warnings, Copyright Warnings, Google, Microsoft, CCIA, FTC, Licensing, Policys
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Pingback from 1Google and Microsoft supported group launched “Defend Fair Use” website » D’ Technology Weblog: Technology News & Reviews says:August 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
[...] Earlier this month, the Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a complaint with the FTC alleging that professional sports leagues, Hollywood studios, and book publishers were all using copyright notices that misrepresented the law. Now, the group has launched a web site called Defend Fair Use that shows they are serious about making the complaint stick. [...]
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