While we here at eBook Architects do see a need for DRM
protection on certain categories of eBooks, especially expensive eBooks like textbooks, we also think that the use of DRM is not a foolproof method of protecting an eBook from illegal copying.
Rix LJ (with whom Etherton and Jackson LJJ agreed
on this point) indicated that the seemingly unfettered right to access accounts and
certain categories of related documents of a local authority that is available to «persons interested» under section 15 must be «read down» — in accordance with Article 1, Protocol 1 of the ECHR (
protection of peaceful enjoyment of possessions)-- so as to protect the commercial confidentiality of those documents or parts of those documents, unless disclosure is objectively justified.