A Span Of Lemons

Is ripping from CDs fair use?

More iPod blues for the IPKat. PC Pro reports that RIAA has petitioned the U.S.A. Copyright Office, which is charged amongst determining the exceptions to the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), arguing that ripping music from CDs is non fair use, too and then is non legal. This comes every bit somewhat of a surprise since, inwards Summer 2005’s Supreme Court Grokster litigation RIAA’s counsel said:

"The tape companies, my clients, get got said, for around fourth dimension now, too it's been on their website for around fourth dimension now, that it's perfectly lawful to accept a CD that you've purchased, upload it onto your computer, seat it onto your iPod."

Now RIAA claims that this wasn’t a full general disceptation of law. Instead, all that was intended was to enjoin that ripping would survive legal if the copyright possessor granted permission too copyright owners real oft grant that permission. In the submissions to the Copyright Office RIAA said:

"Nor does the fact that permission to brand a re-create inwards item circumstances is oft or fifty-fifty routinely granted, necessarily flora that the copying is a fair piece of occupation when the copyright possessor withholds that authorization… In this regard, the disceptation attributed to counsel for copyright owners inwards the MGM v. Grokster illustration is but a disceptation virtually authorisation, non virtually fair use."

has ever sentiment that the UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland has a lot to acquire from the U.S.A. when it comes to infinite shifting. It seems that if RIAA has its way, this volition survive a matter of the past. The sentiment of lots of private consumers negotiating ad hoc licences from private copyright owners is laughable. If the IPKat was a cynic, he’d suspect that there’s around kind out of collecting guild waiting inwards the wings, arrive at to grant blanket licences to iPod owners for the correct price.


Olfactory scope decision

has come upwardly across an olfactory scope decision past times the OHIM Fourth Board of Appeal, concerning (he thinks) an application for the odor of lemon.

The problem is, it’s solely inwards Spanish. Any assistance on this would survive appreciated.