[Fsfe-france] [Fwd: Pas de DMCA pour proteger les cartouches d'imprimante]

[Laurent GUERBY]

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> From: Laurent GUERBY <address@hidden>
> To: Escape List <address@hidden>
> Subject: Pas de DMCA pour proteger les cartouches d'imprimante
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:21:14 +0200
> 
> http://eff.org/
> http://eff.org/legal/cases/Lexmark_v_Static_Control/20041026_Ruling.pdf
> 
> Une victoire pour le droit a l'ingenierie inverse.
> 
> "We should make clear that in the future companies like Lexmark cannot
> use the DMCA in conjunction with copyright law to create monopolies of
> manufactured goods for themselves just by tweaking the facts of this
> case..."
> 
> Laurent
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19300
> 
> <<
> Lexmark loses DMCA ink cartridge case
> 
> Judge pronounces alternative chips AOK
> 
> 
> ByINQUIRER staff: Tuesday 26 October 2004, 23:39
> 
> Advert
> MAJOR PRINTER company Lexmark has lost a case in a US court in which it
> tried to deploy the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to prevent
> other companies making cartridges that work with its printers.
> 
> A lower court had imposed an injunction preventing the sale of Static
> Control Component chips which would allow any cartridge to work with
> Lexmark printers.
> 
> But that decision was toppled by the Sixth Circuit Court today.
> 
> The ruling means that competitors can now use the SCC chips with
> cartridges, but the central plank of Lexmark's case was that such chips
> breached the controversial DMCA legislation.
> 
> The original idea of the DMCA was to protect copyright infringement on
> the Internet, but, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
> (EFF), companies have used loopholes in the law to prevent after market
> competition.
> 
> Lexmark - which you probably recall was spun off as a printer firm by
> IBM - claimed SCC unlawfully reverse engineered its tech, and sued.
> 
> >>
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