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September 10, 2004
Hatch's Hit List #45 - MIT's I/O Brush
Posted by Ernest Miller
What is Hatch's Hit List? Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has introduced the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA, née INDUCE Act) in the Senate. The bill would make it illegal to "intentionally induce" copyright infringement, but is worded so broadly that it would have all sorts of unintended consequences, one of which is to severely limit, cripple or kill innovation in many different fields. Hatch's Hit List is a daily exploration of some of the technologies and fields that the bill would likely affect. See also, Introducing Hatch's Hit List and the Hatch's Hit List Archives. Send list suggestions to ernest.miller 8T aya.yale.edu.
Today on Hatch's Hit List: MIT's I/O Brush
MIT's infamous Media Lab, from which many inducing technologies have found their way into the world, has produced a device whose sole and only purpose appears to be copyright infringement. Furthermore, it is designed to be used by children, training them from an early age to engage in copyright crimes! Who knows how many innocents will be corrupted by the Fagins and Child Catchers of MIT?
What is this criminal device? The I/O Brush:
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool aimed at young children, ages four and up, to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, children can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from their immediate environment.
This is explicitly training children to violate the rights of reproduction and derivative works. Unbelievable! Shocking!
And just what does MIT expect the children to do with their infringing works? Undoubtedly, because they are in digital format, share them with people! Perhaps they expect that they will be shared via the internet! Thus, violating the right of public distribution! A few more exclamation points for no apparent reason!!!!!!
Want to know more about the INDUCE Act?
Please see LawMeme's well-organized index to everything I've written on the topic, including Hatch's Hit List: The LawMeme Reader's Guide to Ernie Miller's Guide to the INDUCE Act.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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