Fair Use Under Fire
Carrie Russell,
Library Journal,
Aug 20, 2003
The opening paragraph gets right to the heart of the problem. "A library customer checks out a new DVD from the library only to discover that it won't play on her Linux operating system at home. Another, who is blind, borrows an e-book from the library and finds that his text-to-voice software cannot "read" the product. Yet another user checks out a new music CD but can't get it to play on his laptop. These activities are absolutely legal, but technologies installed within equipment, tied to content, or built into a software program, make them no longer possible. This is digital rights management (DRM) in action." The remainder of the article contains discussion of this and other issues, but can give us nothing more hopeful than the vague promise that "the process is underway."
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