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| DATE | 2006-03-20 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] EFF HR.1201 campaign
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This sounds very much like the fair use legislation we promoted a while
back. My only concern is that the emphasis here is on consumers. My
feeling is that people should have such rights (even without further
legislation) just because they are free citizens. This is not a
business argument. Its a basic rights issue.
Ruben
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 20:54, WWWhatsup wrote:
> EFF is canvassing for support for something called the 'Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act'
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> https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr010=4iqpu97w23.app2a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=115
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> >>HR 1201 would give citizens the right to circumvent copy-protection measures as long as what they're doing is otherwise legal. For example, it would make sure that when you buy a CD, whether it is copy-protected or not, you can record it onto your computer and move the songs to an MP3 player. It would also protect a computer science professor who needs to bypass copy-protection to evaluate encryption technology. In addition, the bill would codify the Betamax defense, which has been under attack by the entertainment industries in the "INDUCE Act" and the MGM v. Grokster case. This kind of sanity would be a welcome change to our copyright law.
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