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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Stewart Baker on Sen. Biden's digital rights managem
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- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:53:01 +0200
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Subject: FC: Stewart Baker on Sen. Biden's digital rights management bill
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A little-noticed anticounterfeiting bill has suddenly blossomed
into a potentially sweeping digital rights management tool. The
bill, S. 2395, originally tinkered with existing statutory
provisions that outlaw counterfeiting of the tokens, including
holograms, that are used by software producers to guarantee the
authenticity of CDs containing valuable programs. The original
version of S. 2395 simply updated existing law to include other
authentication features. But in markup on July 18, the Senate
Judiciary committee greatly expanded the bill. It now covers
movies, music, and other consumer products; it allows content
owners to bring private suits against violators and to collect up
to $25,000 in automatic damages for each violation; and it expands
the scope of the law to cover not just tokens but also digital
features used by content owners to make sure that copies are not
infringing in any way the intellectual property rights of the
owners.
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