Brazil's Copyright Law Forbids Using DRM to Block Fair Use

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I'm fairly certain of 2 things:

1. I wouldn't be blogging about Copyright (or any other topic) if working with a blog wasn't an assignment in LIS 2600.
2. I wouldn't have any idea what they are talking about in Brazil with copyright if I didn't take LIS 2000.
   

I can appreciate what Brazil is doing because it seems that the copyright war is favoring copyright owners at the expense of the public good and the first sale doctrine. It used to be that I could do just about anything with a work I owned, including making copies (for the most part). In the digital age, I can't even make a copy of something I own without breaking the copyright law.

I can understand a copyright holder wanted to protect her work. But with DRM, it seems they want to limit when I can access something I own. It's almost as if they want to change the idea of ownership to an idea like licensing. I can't own a digital work, rather I agree to some form of licensing so I can access the item. My $0.02 is that I don't like it.

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