Re: [school-discuss] Britannica and DMCA?

["Douglas S. Blank" <dblank@brynmawr.edu>]

Beware of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). If any of these 
proprietary formats claim that they exist to protect copyrighted 
materials, then a third-party reader might be circumventing it, and may 
be illegal.

I'm not a lawyer, and don't mean to spread FUD, but the DMCA is 
something to consider anyway...

-Doug

Cameron Miller wrote:

> Years ago, some students at the U of Arizona created an app to translate 
> between several different proprietary molecular modeling file formats. 
> They went to an intermediate format of their own to accomplish the task. 
>  If this approach could be done for some of the various proprietary 
> Encyclopedia data formats we could allow for their display using any 
> tool that understood the open intermediate format, and allow for 
> Encyclopedias du jour to be added at any time by independent developers.
> 
> - cameron
> 



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