http://www.lawfont.com/2005/10/06/stevens-v-sony-most-irrelevant-high-court-decision-ever-rendered-on-copyright-or-is-there-more-to-it/ an analysis of law, technology, economics, and policy Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:59:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.lawfont.com/2005/10/06/stevens-v-sony-most-irrelevant-high-court-decision-ever-rendered-on-copyright-or-is-there-more-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-75 LawFont » What is region coding? (Part 2) Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:07:25 +0000 http://www.lawfont.com/?p=42#comment-75 [...] The recent Australian High Court decision in Sony v Stevens has indirectly affirmed the ability of consumers to mod-chip players legally. While not explicitly condoning mod-chipping activities, the Court gave implicit support for consumers working around the artificial restrictions imposed by regional coding systems as applied to Sony PlayStation consoles. In addition, the High Court clarified that the “lock” created by software on the PlayStation game and hardware in the console was not a “technological protection measure” under the anti-circumvention provisions of Australian copyright law, and so Stevens’ mod-chipping activities did not infringe copyright in the underlying movies and games. [...] [...] The recent Australian High Court decision in Sony v Stevens has indirectly affirmed the ability of consumers to mod-chip players legally. While not explicitly condoning mod-chipping activities, the Court gave implicit support for consumers working around the artificial restrictions imposed by regional coding systems as applied to Sony PlayStation consoles. In addition, the High Court clarified that the “lock” created by software on the PlayStation game and hardware in the console was not a “technological protection measure” under the anti-circumvention provisions of Australian copyright law, and so Stevens’ mod-chipping activities did not infringe copyright in the underlying movies and games. [...]

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