IP: Time to rewrite the DMCA

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
>
> Time to rewrite the DMCA
> By Rick Boucher
> January 29, 2002, 12:00 PM PT
>
> The American public has traditionally enjoyed the ability to make
> convenient and incidental copies of copyrighted works without
> obtaining the prior consent of copyright owners. These traditional
> "fair use" rights are at the foundation of the receipt and use of
> information by the American people.
>
> Unfortunately, those rights are now under attack.
>
> In 1997, motion picture studios, record producers, book publishers
> and other content owners came to Congress with a simple proposition:
> Give us a law that will stop pirates from circumventing technical
> protection measures used to safeguard copyrighted works, and we will
> release all sorts of exciting new content in digital formats
>
> At the time, libraries, universities, consumer electronics
> manufacturers, Internet portals and others warned that enactment of
> the broadly worded legislation would stifle new technology, would
> threaten access to information, and would move us inexorably towards
> a "pay per use" society. That day is now close at hand.
>
> ...
>
> http://news.com.com/2010-1078-825335.html

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