an egg-basket in a centrifuge: Son-of-ACTA, the TPP, wants to legislate buffers

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February 2

Son-of-ACTA, the TPP, wants to legislate buffers | Boing Boing

‘Now, this is a secret treaty, so we don’t know most of what’s going on in the room, but one jaw-dropping leak is that that the treaty contemplates requiring licenses for ephemeral copies made in a computer’s buffer. That means that every buffer in your machine would need a separate, negotiated license for every playback of copyrighted works, and buffer designs that the entertainment industry doesn’t like — core technical architectures — would become legally fraught because they’d require millions of license negotiations or they’d put users in danger of lawsuits. ‘

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