{"id":54,"date":"2005-01-19T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T13:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-01-19T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T13:53:30","slug":"german_library_obtains_license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/german_library_obtains_license\/","title":{"rendered":"german library obtains &#8220;license to copy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"leipzig_foto_b.gif\" img style=\"margin:5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/leipzig_foto_b.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"84\" align=\"left\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"berlin_foto_a.gif\" img style=\"margin:5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/berlin_foto_a.gif\" width=\"56\" height=\"84\" align=\"left\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ffm_foto.gif\" img style=\"margin:5px;\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/ffm_foto.gif\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" align=\"left\"\/> Germany&#8217;s national library, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddb.de\/index_txt.htm\">Deutsche Bibliothek<\/a><\/b>, has been made exempt from key provisions of the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/ukcdr.org\/issues\/eucd\/\">European Union Copright Directive<\/a><\/b>, giving it the exclusive right &#8220;to crack and duplicate DRM-protected e-books and other digital media such as CD-Audio and CD-Roms&#8221; (check out <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileread.com\/forums\/showthread.php?threadid=3146\">post on mobileread<\/a><\/b>).<br \/>\nFurther in <b>mobileread<\/b>: &#8220;The Deutsche Bibliothek achieved an agreement with the German Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the German Booksellers and Publishers Association after it became obvious that copy protections would not only annoy teenage school boys, but also prohibit the library from fulfilling its <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddb.de\/wir\/sammelauftr_e.htm\">legal mandate<\/a><\/b> to collect, process and bibliographic index important German and German-language based works.&#8221;<br \/>\nHeartening to see a top-down hack like this.<br \/>\nsee also threads on <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/01\/19\/german_libraries_can.html\">BoingBoing (German libraries can circumvent DRM)<\/a><\/b> and <b><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/01\/19\/0021255&#038;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s national library, Deutsche Bibliothek, has been made exempt from key provisions of the European Union Copright Directive, giving it the exclusive right &#8220;to crack and duplicate DRM-protected e-books and other digital media such as CD-Audio and CD-Roms&#8221; (check out post on mobileread). Further in mobileread: &#8220;The Deutsche Bibliothek achieved an agreement with the German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright-and-copyleft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}