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Fear of a Pay-Per-Use World

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39330,00.html

Fear of a Pay-Per-Use World

by Oscar S. Cisneros

3:00 a.m. Oct. 9, 2000 PDT

Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are asking the librarian of Congress to preserve traditional fair-use and free- speech rights by carving out exceptions to the law.

Unless some exceptions are created, they argue, the entertainment industry will have more control than the Constitution allows. One concern is that this could lead to a pay-per-use world where consumers don't truly own the books, movies and music they purchase.

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