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Digital–Fair-Use Bills Introduced in HouseRepresentatives Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and John Doolittle (R-Calif.) introduced legislation in the House October 3 that adds fair-use protections to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. Their Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act would permit the circumvention of technological protection measures—barred under the DMCA—for the exercise of consumer fair-use rights. Additionally, anti-circumvention tools that have substantial non-infringing uses would be decriminalized, and allowances for anti-circumvention research would be broadened. The legislation has been endorsed by the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, American Association of Law Libraries, Medical Library Association, and Special Libraries Association. The previous day, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) introduced another digital–fair-use bill, the Digital Choice and Freedom Act, which would allow consumers to make legal backup copies of digital material to use in cars, PCs, or mobile devices. It also restricts shrink-wrap licenses and allows consumers to bypass technical protections on copyright material for legal uses, CNet online news reported October 2. Posted October 7, 2002. |
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