Subject: Fair Use Seriously Endangered
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:35:10 -0500
Message-Id: <v01520d00b1a087230b69@[204.30.67.217]> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:35:10 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: Fair Use Seriously Endangered
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
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