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DATE | 2003-04-01 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] DMCA Testimony
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Greeting
I lead New Yorkers for Fair Use, an organization based in New York City, which advocates the publics stake in copyright issues. We are a grassroots organization, whose URL is http://fairuse.nylxs.com/, and affiliated with the New York GNU/Linux Scene, a Free Software educational society in New York City.
We would like to testify at the LOC's hearings for exceptions to the DMCA.
I would like to LOC to grant two exceptions, one for a media which can not be used without prior authorization with Free Software. And I would move for an excpetion of the Vital Book Product being used at the New York University College of Denistry. Both kinds of products have restricted the public to the point of undermineding their property rights.
In the case of media such as the standard DVD Movie, the in ability of reading these files under Free Software is destorys the essense of indiviudal property rights two owners of these disks, as they need a PREAUTHORIZED device to read the disk.
In the case of Vital Books, the disk is forced on the students with all their text books, and then it TURNS ITSELF OFF at the end of the semester, destroying the students property.
Both of these systems need urgent attention from the LOC.
My name is
Ruben Safir. President and Founder of NY Fair Use (a subcommitte of NYLXS) 1600 East 17th Street Brooklyn, NY 11230 1-718-382-0585
ruben-at-nylxs.com
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