[IP] Boucher Introduces Fair Use Rights Bill

[David Farber <farber@tmail.com>]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Boucher Introduces Fair Use Rights Bill
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:55:10 -0500


January 8, 2003
Boucher Introduces Fair Use Rights Bill
By Roy Mark

Digital home recording rights became the first technology-related
legislation introduced in the 108th Congress Tuesday afternoon with 
the
filing of a bill intended to protect the fair use rights of consumers
purchasing copyrighted material.

Sponsored by Representatives Rick Boucher (D.-Va.) and John Doolittle
(R.-Calif.), the bill would amend two key provisions of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which currently prohibit the 
circumvention
of a technical protection measure guarding access to a copyrighted work 
even
if the purpose of the circumvention is to exercise traditional consumer 
fair
use rights.

Entitled the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (H.R. 107), the 
legislation
is identical to the bill introduced by Boucher last November (H.R. 
5544).

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-- Dave

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