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Famed hardware hacker Bunnie Huang announces his newest project and goes into detail about how trouble from the DMCA was the impetus. He comments that unchecked power to license freedom of expression should not be trusted to corporate interests. The project, NeTV2, is being crowdfunded.
I'd like to share a project I'm working on that could have an impact on your future freedoms in the digital age. It's an open video development board I call NeTV2.
It's related to a lawsuit I've filed with the help of the EFF against the US government to reform Section 1201 of the DMCA. Currently, Section 1201 imbues media cartels with nearly unchecked power to prevent us from innovating and expressing ourselves, thus restricting our right to free speech.
At Boing Boing : Innovation should be legal; that's why I'm launching NeTV2
(Score: 2) by Adamsjas on Monday May 14 2018, @05:42PM (1 child)
QUOTE: Indeed, the GPL has never been well tested in the court system
Hasn't it won every test it was subject to? In many countries?
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought it had.
When people stop contesting an issue, because the lose every case, isn't that a definition of "well tested"?
If not, what do you think is missing?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 14 2018, @06:17PM
On just 13 May 2017: [theregister.co.uk]
The judge concluded that the GPL constitutes a contract, even though the FSF's long-held position is apparently that it is not a contract. In the judge's decision, there is talk of how other copyright cases
Also, such a case is subject to appeal, and nothing related to copyleft case law has ever made its way to the Supreme Court.
Furthermore, as the U.S. dictates world policy, especially regarding copyrights and contracts, that strongly suggests that the GPL's standing the world is still not very secure.
From what I know, there have been a number of settlements, but those are not judgments that form case law.