That brings up a good point. Copyright laws are quite different in different countries. Should there be a Worldwide copyright law?
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Originally Posted by 6charlong
What's best for politicians to do in office is to do what the people want done (at least, if anyone's paying attention to what they actually are doing). I still think the only solution to this DRM issue is through changes in the copyright and patent laws.
One example no one seems to have written about in this thread is illustrated by my own experience. In 1980 my son's science book assured him that "someday man will walk on the moon." The public school district's problems keeping text books up to date is a resource drain that can--and someday will--be solved with eBooks: subscribe to eTexts and update them yearly. The Kindle distribution model addresses this (but wifi would probably work better for school districts).
Public school eTexts should erase themselves at the end of the school year (same thing libraries need). But equally important, the texts themselves must be locked so that they cannot be changed without at least sending up an alert. I'm thinking about things like the controversy over natural selection versus intelligent design in some school districts. It brings focus on the school districts' requirement to guide curriculum.
Our American copyrights need to be written in the context of how to make copyrights work with current technologies. Once that is done it will be possible through international organizations to try to get some agreement among nations for a world standard.
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