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| DATE | 2004-07-16 |
| FROM | Mike Richardson - NYLXS PRESIDENT
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] [DMCA_Discuss] Senators serious about DMCA fair use (fwd)
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:21:06 +0400
From: Vladimir Katalov
To: dmca_discuss-at-lists.microshaft.org
Subject: [DMCA_Discuss] Senators serious about DMCA fair use
Senators serious about DMCA fair use
No really
By Nick Farrell: Friday 16 July 2004, 08:00
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17254
INDUSTRY PUNDITS think that senators will be listening to the worries
of ‘fair use’ advocates into account when they debate a new bill which
will curtail the excesses of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(DMCA), PC World reported.
The DMCA outlaws most attempts to circumvent copy protection on
digital content, as well as devices primarily used to infringe
copyright. The law is beloved by the music industry because it
prevents people copying any DVD and has been a key part in any legal
action it has taken over the last year.
But there is a wide spread feeling that the DMCA goes a little too far
in making it illegal for consumers to break copy protections in an
attempt to exercise their legal fair use rights, such as making backup
copies of DVDs or excerpting a DVD or CDs. Now a new law called the
Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act is being looked at closely by the
Senate, which will protect the rights of people to copy content that
they have paid for.
Of course the music and movie industry Hate the idea (with a capital
H). The Motion Picture Association of America, claims the bill would
"put a hole in the ship" by allowing the creation of devices or
technologies that have significant copyright-infringing uses.
Opponents of that idea say that it would just give the music and movie
industry the ability to sue people like Apple for making kit like the
i-pod that could be used for piracy, which is just plain silly.
A MPAA spokesman was quoted by PC World as wondering what the pressing
need was to protect fair copying use anyway. The full PCWorld story
can be found here.
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USC Title 17 Sec. 107. - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
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