Subject: Exceptions for "Fair Use" in current Senate bill
Curt Priest (cpriest@juno.com)
Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 17:34:50 EDT
To: ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG Subject: Exceptions for "Fair Use" in current Senate bill Message-Id: <19980506.173436.8351.8.cpriest@juno.com> From: cpriest@juno.com (Curt Priest) Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 17:34:50 EDT
SENATE COMMITTEE MOVES FORWARD ON ONLINE COPYRIGHT BILL
The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved legislation that would
expand copyright protection to online material, but would still allow
exceptions for "fair use" by librarians and educators. Absent from the
current version under consideration is a specific exemption for devices
used in encryption research, a situation that "would pose a serious
impediment" to the science of computer security, says the VP and general
counsel for the Computer and Communications Industry Association. The
legislation does exempt Internet service providers from liability for
copyright infringements that they unwittingly transmit or store. In
return, providers have agreed to "expeditiously" remove or disable
access to sites that are illegally using copyrighted material. A
companion bill was approved last month by the House Judiciary Committee.
(New York Times 4 May 98)
[from Edupage]
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