[Anti-drm] Why Is The Government Putting DRM On Its Own Public Files?

[Omar Kaminski]

Something to be observed...

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070201/170616.shtml

Why Is The Government Putting DRM On Its Own Public Files?
Contributed by Mike
Friday, February 2nd, 2007 @ 9:28AM

Documents released by the US government have no copyright -- yet, apparently 
that doesn't stop some government officials from acting as if it does. Jerry 
Brito highlights how in doing some research for a discussion on the 9/11 
Commission Report, he was disappointed to find that the government-released 
PDF has copy protections that stop people from copying and pasting material 
from inside the document. He notes that, even though the content isn't 
covered by copyright, circumventing that protection would likely mean he had 
broken the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause. Doesn't it seem like there's a 
problem when you could get in trouble for circumventing copy protection on 
content that is in the public domain?

http://www.techliberation.com/archives/041976.php

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