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NEW COPYRIGHT BILL WOULD GIVE POWER TO THE PEOPLE Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) have introduced legislation aimed at restoring specific fair use rights to copy digital works that were lost under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as well as bestowing "circumvention" rights to bypass copy protections when done "solely in furtherance of scientific research." The Digital Media Consumers Rights Act has drawn support from a broad coalition of electronics and computer interests, consumer groups and academics. "It's just time," said Consumer Electronics Association president Gary Shapiro. "Consumers have been pushed up against the ropes. This is the first time in 20 years in which consumers are going on the offense rather than on the defense." Meanwhile, entertainment groups bemoaned this latest development in the battle over digital media rights. "If this bill were to be enacted, content owners would be left with two unhappy choices: Protect their valuable works by not making them available in digital formats such as DVD, or lose all control over unauthorized reproduction and distribution," said Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. The bill has no chance of passage this year, but will set the stage for debate in the next session of Congress. (Wired.com 4 Oct 2002) http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55569,00.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]