Brazil did not stop at removing Creative Commons. Now file sharing and copying discs can become criminal offenses.
Last year we reported on the Brazilian copyright law prohibiting the use of DRM to block fair use . It seemed at the time that Brazil was taking a very progressive and open position on copyright reform, even licensing the content of public websites on Creative Commons ( at one time CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Brasil introduced the Minister of Culture website on 2003/08 the year and the legendary musician Gilberto Gil , also known for creating the Sampling-license Creative Commons , launched on December 16, 2003, along with the “guys from the Negativeland group ”, read more about how the new minister dealt with Creative Commons here and here ). There was even a movement to legalize file sharing .
However, after a new administration was elected, Brazil’s copyright position seemed to unfold with a screech. Mike Masnick of Techdirt reports that the new Minister of Culture of Brazil, shortly after taking office, issued an order to remove the Creative Commons license from the website , stating: "We will discuss copyright reform when the time comes." A letter of protest from a number of Brazilians did not work, because Brazil is currently considering a bill on “cybercrime” , which could not only criminalize file sharing, but could also criminalize thegutting of copying a CD to a computer.
Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, have obviously not legalized copying a CD, but it seems that it will be widely recognized as a form of fair use, which is likely to stand up in court if it is challenged. (Maybe that’s why no one legally disputes this since the RIAA lost Diamond Multimedia , which opened the era of MP3 players - they don’t want an explicit legal precedent.) It’s hard to imagine any country directly introducing a criminal responsible for such widespread use of the media.
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Perhaps this is just Brazil’s first step on the road to becoming a totalitarian bureaucratic anti-utopia .
PS: As you can see, the attitude to Creative Commons is a clear signal about what a person is.
However, after a new administration was elected, Brazil’s copyright position seemed to unfold with a screech. Mike Masnick of Techdirt reports that the new Minister of Culture of Brazil, shortly after taking office, issued an order to remove the Creative Commons license from the website , stating: "We will discuss copyright reform when the time comes." A letter of protest from a number of Brazilians did not work, because Brazil is currently considering a bill on “cybercrime” , which could not only criminalize file sharing, but could also criminalize the
Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, have obviously not legalized copying a CD, but it seems that it will be widely recognized as a form of fair use, which is likely to stand up in court if it is challenged. (Maybe that’s why no one legally disputes this since the RIAA lost Diamond Multimedia , which opened the era of MP3 players - they don’t want an explicit legal precedent.) It’s hard to imagine any country directly introducing a criminal responsible for such widespread use of the media.
')
Perhaps this is just Brazil’s first step on the road to becoming a totalitarian bureaucratic anti-utopia .
PS: As you can see, the attitude to Creative Commons is a clear signal about what a person is.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/127467/
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