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German Constitutional Court: Private Copying Unlikely a Right

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12-09-2005 10:53pm

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damien

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http://constitutionalcode.blogspot.com/2005/09/german-constitutional-court-private.html

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (the Bundesverfassungsgericht) has rejected a complaint by a consumer about copy protection measures on CDs and DVDs. The Court did not see such a serious disadvantage in the copy protection mechanisms for the consumer, that it should give a decision before the consumer had followed a normal civil procedure against the manufacturer. The interesting thing about the rejection of the ruling is that the Court added some considerations about the private copying "right": it doubted that the constitution provides such a right...

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