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by bjt
3846 days ago
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This is wrong on a couple levels. 1. The protocol is open. It's not Philips' IP. 2. Even if the protocol were closed, and Philips put some DRM on it to lock out 3rd parties from reverse engineering the protocol to make compatible bulbs, the third parties still wouldn't be in violation of the DMCA, even if they had to include small copy/pasted bits of the Philips code that are necessary for interoperability. This was the holding in the Lexmark case back in 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_International,_Inc._v.... |
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