The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sued Jack Murthy of Winnetka, IL over alleged copyright violations related to Mr. Murthy's memory-enhancing brain implants.
The MPAA contends that Mr. Murthy broke US copyright law when he entered the entirety of the film Harry Potter 7: Yet More Trouble at Hogwart's into the artificial memory he had surgically implanted last year.
Murthy had been suffering from the increasingly common ailment known as Electromagnetic Field Induced Memory Atrophy, or EFIMA. EFIMA is often caused by extended use of phones and other wireless communications devices when placed near the head. Murthy purchased the surgical procedure that implanted several terabytes of silicon-based RAM into his brain in order to overcome the debilitating effects of EFIMA.
The MPAA's suit against Murthy partly stems from the recently overhauled US copyright code, which forbids any and all duplication of copyrighted work "for so long as any party with intellectual or financial interest in the work exists." The MPAA claims that by retaining his memory of watching the movie in his artificial memory, Murthy effectively made a perfect duplicate of the content without permission of the movie studio.
Mr. Murthy's defense is to include at least one epistomologist, who will likely argue that the nature of memory and knowledge does not allow it to be subsumed under US copyright law.
Sony-Miramax-Pixar, the movie studio that made the film in question, had no comment for this story.
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Not sure what a person with a photographic memory is to do. They must be getting innondated with Law Suits and legal fees.
MPAA is going way overboard.....