FC: Rep. Boucher (finally) introduces bill to rescind part of DMCA

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Here's Boucher talking about this bill as far back as July 2001:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02308.html

I've put the text of the Boucher bill here:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/boucher.dmca.amend.100302.pdf

A similar bill, though not as widely supported, introduced by Rep. Lofgren 
is here:
http://www.house.gov/lofgren/press/107press/021002_act.htm

News article on Lofgren bill:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960531.html

-Declan

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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-960731.html

   By Declan McCullagh
   Staff Writer, CNET News.com
   October 3, 2002, 4:44 PM PT

   A proposal to defang a controversial copyright law became public on
   Thursday, after more than a year of anticipation and months of
   closed-door negotiations with potential supporters.

   Formally titled the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, the new bill
   represents the boldest counterattack yet on recent expansions of
   copyright law that have been driven by entertainment industry firms
   worried about Internet piracy.

   The bill, introduced by Reps. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and John Doolittle,
   R-Calif., would repeal key sections of the 1998 Digital Millennium
   Copyright Act (DMCA). It would also require anyone selling
   copy-protected CDs to include a "prominent and plainly legible" notice
   that the discs include anti-piracy technology that could render them
   unreadable on some players.

   [...]




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