Subject: DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION CALLS FOR STATEMENTS ON DIGITAL COPYRIGHT ACT
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:00:52 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011700b235b3468abe@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:00:52 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION CALLS FOR STATEMENTS ON DIGITAL COPYRIGHT ACT
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 28, 1998
DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION STATEMENT & CALL FOR ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL
<http://www.dfc.org.>
Following on from the American Library Association's statement on the
current action on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I am forwarding
this alert from the Digital Future Coalition.
If you wish to follow the lead of the DFC, software on the DFC Webpage will
allow you to automatically sent a pre-written letter, that you can amend as
you wish, and send to your elected representatives. Go to:
<http://congress.nw.dc.us/cgi-bin/alertpr.pl?dir=dfc&alert=dfc1>
David Green
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>From: "Skip Lockwood" <dfc@ari.net>
>To: "Digital Future Coalition Discussion List" <dfclist@listserv.alawash.org>
>Subject: Speak now or forever hold your peace on the Digital Millennium Copy
>
>September 28, 1998
>
>The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is going to conference
>
>Speak now or forever hold your peace!
>
>On September 24, 1998, Congress held the first of several meetings, to
>reconcile the House and Senate versions of the Digital Millennium Copyright
>Act (DMCA). These meeting s could be completed by the end of this week!
>
>The DMCA makes significant changes to American copyright law in the name of
>implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization Treaties.
>Unfortunately, some of the proposed changes could upset the uniquely
>American balance between the users and creators of copyrighted works. The
>Senate bill lacks adequate protections for fair use, encryption research,
>and personal privacy. It could also limit the availability of future
>consumer electronics and computer products. On the other hand, the House
>version contains many extraneous provisions that have little or nothing to
>do with implementing the important WIPO treaties. These provisions in the
>House bill would overturn three consumer-oriented Supreme Court decisions.
>The Justice department has concluded that one of these provisions, Title V,
>which creates sweeping new rights in databases and other collections of
>information may well be unconstitutional. Now is the time to speak up
>because these meetings will determine the final form of this legislation as
>it goes to the President's desk to be signed into law.
>
>If you care about the future of the Internet, you should let your Senators
>and Representatives know, as soon as possible, how important it is to
>preserve the essential provisions of the House DMCA, which protects fair
>use, personal privacy, the availability of consumer products and encryption
>research - while rejecting its harmful extraneous provisions. A letter to
>the Senate detailing the DFC's concerns with both pieces of legislation is
>available on our web site at <http://www.dfc.org.>
>
>E-mail (www.dfc.org), fax or call (202-224-3121) your Senators and
>Representative now and ask them to contact the members of the Digital
>Millennium Copyright Act conference committee and urge them to keep the
>protections for information consumers embodied in the core of the House
>version of the DMCA and to remove provisions such as Title V, the
>Collections of Information Antipiracy Act, which have no relation to WIPO
>implementation. A sample letter and more information is available at our
>web site www.dfc.org.
>
>The following Representatives and Senators are on the Digital Millennium
>Copyright Act conference committee:
>
>Senator Hatch of Utah
>Senator Leahy of Vermont
>Senator Thurmond of South Carolina
>
>Representative Hyde of Illinois
>Representative Coble of North Carolina
>Representative Goodlate of Virginia
>Representative Berman of California
>Representative Conyers of Michigan
>Representative Dingell of Michigan
>Representative Bliley of Virginia
>Representative Tauzin of Louisiana
>
>The Digital Future Coalition is 42 non-profit and for-profit entities that
>are committed to fighting for balanced intellectual property law (copyright)
>in the digital era.
>
>Membership of the Digital Future Coalition
>
>Alliance for Public Technology
>American Association of Law Libraries
>American Association of Legal Publishers
>American Association of School Administrators
>American Committee for Interoperable Systems
>American Council of Learned Societies
>American Historical Association
>American Library Association
>Art Libraries Society of North America
>Association for Computers and the Humanities
>Association of American Geographers
>Association of Research Libraries
>Chief Officers of State Library Agencies
>College Art Association
>Committee of Concerned Intellectual Property Educators
>Computer & Communications Industry Association
>Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
>Conference on College Composition and Communications
>Consortium on School Networking
>Consortium of Social Science Associations
>Consumer Federation of America
>Consumer Project on Technology
>Electronic Frontier Foundation
>Electronic Privacy Information Center
>Home Recording Rights Coalition
>International Society for Telecommunications in Education
>Medical Library Association
>Modern Language Association
>Music Library Association
>National Association of Independent Schools
>National Council of Teachers of English
>National Education Association
>National Humanities Alliance
>National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage
>National School Boards Association
>National Writers Union
>Society for Cinema Studies
>Society of American Archivists
>Special Libraries Association
>United States Catholic Conference
>United States Distance Learning Association
>Visual Resources Association
>
>
>
>
>Skip Lockwood
>Coordinator
>Digital Future Coalition
>Box 7679
>Washington, D.C. 20004-7679
>202-628-6048
>202-628-9227 (fax)
>www.dfc.org
>dfc@dfc.org
>
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