Appeals court slams garage door DMCA claim

Appeals court slams garage door DMCA claim
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-09-01

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the maker of a universal garage door remote did not violate the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, putting the brakes on one of the more adventuresome interpretations of the controversial copyright law.

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Appeals court slams garage door DMCA claim 2004-09-02
KAOS (1 replies)

Good call by both courts, but I think the reason given in the initial case leaves room for issues to come. Chamberlain can simply state in later lines of products that the consumer is only allowed to use Chamberlain's remotes. After reading about the so called "Hack" the rolling code, while good, w...

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Appeals court slams garage door DMCA claim 2004-09-03
Our rights

According to the article, the descision also stated that "Copyright law itself authorizes the public to make certain uses of copyrighted materials. Consumers who purchase a product containing a copy of embedded software have the inherent legal right to use that copy of the software. What the law aut...

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Appeals court slams garage door DMCA claim 2004-09-03
Dangle (1 replies)

In the end no matter what way you look at it, the consumer gets screwed since we are the ones unable to protect an important doorway into our property. I agree, First priority should be fixing the problems they already have, can you imagine Microsoft suing a company providing password recovery on t...

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Appeals court slams oven door DMCA claim 2004-09-09
Anti-Whine (1 replies)

What's next? Should universal remotes be banned? I mean picture this:

You and a Julia Childs rerun are working together on a fab cake and right at an important juncture I flip the channel from across the street and down the cake goes. You're out some coin. Ya takin' me to court DMCA style ...

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Appeals court slams oven door DMCA claim 2004-09-13
Anonymous

Its just plain lame, now that with "high tech"crime on the rise and a poor economy. A lot of companies just use this chance to sue whoever they can find so at the end of the day they can do to finger pointing...

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