>Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:35:10 -0500 >Sender: [log in to unmask] >Precedence: bulk >From: [log in to unmask] (David Green) >To: Multiple recipients of list <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Fair Use Seriously Endangered >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-To: [log in to unmask] >X-Sender: [log in to unmask] > >NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT >June 7, 1998 > > >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. > >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. > >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. > >I am following this brief announcement with a detailed memo from the >National Humanities Alliance that fully explains this situation. > > >David Green >