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[FYI] U.S.: Showdown at high noon on the Senate floor between warring authors of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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Copyright or Copy Wrong?
by Brad King
2:00 a.m. Feb. 16, 2001 PST
The copyright is wrong, Orrin.
Looks like there's going to be a showdown at high noon on the Senate
floor between warring authors of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act.
On the one side are those who believe the DMCA has allowed piracy to
become rampant, and technology companies to run roughshod over
property rights. On the other side are those who believe the content
companies, especially in the week of the Napster ruling, have too
much control.
[...]
Those arguments led Bruce Lehman, one of the original writers of the
bill, to put together a consortium of trade and artist groups to
fight those very technology companies.
"The balance (of copyright law) is tilting toward this anarchist,
everything-for-free view," said Robert Hudson Westover, media
relations consultant for the International Intellectual Property
Institute where Lehman works. "You've got to remember that technology
is on the side of those who want to pirate. They are working on
shutting down Napster, but there are hundreds of other applications
out there."
Executives from the streaming and downloading companies have
complained that without access to content from the music and movie
industry, their businesses would certainly fail.
[...]
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