>Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:35:10 -0500
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>From: [log in to unmask] (David Green)
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>Subject: Fair Use Seriously Endangered
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>NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
>June 7, 1998
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>The spate of copyright legislation appears to be reaching a climax with two
>bills that contain language that asserts the absolute right of owners of
>copyright to protect digital works electronically with no fair use defense
>for circumventing those protections for what have been up until now legal
>purposes.
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>The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (S 2037) and the WIPO Copyright
>Implementation Act both contain this absolute anti-circumvention language
>and also do not mention fair use at any point. S2037 was passed last week
>in the Senate and a Commerce Department hearing took place June 5 on HR
>2281.
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>Many organizations in the educational, scholarly and cultural community are
>calling on members and constituents to contact members of the Commerce
>Committee to explain why this language and these two bills would be
>harmful.
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>I am following this brief announcement with a detailed memo from the
>National Humanities Alliance that fully explains this situation.
>
>
>David Green
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