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CCIA on DMCA: "The Need for a New Exception"

17 February 2000. Thanks to Jason Mahler, CCIA.

See also Copyright Office Comments site: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/

For bills, act and report cited: http://cryptome.org/dmca/dmca-index.htm

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

37 CFR Part 201

[Docket No. RM 99-7]

Request for Comments on Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies

COMMENTS OF

THE COMPUTER & COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (CCIA)

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B. The Need for a New Exception. The judge’s third rationale precludes the current development of a Linux-compatible DVD driver. CCIA believes, however, that once a consumer purchases a DVD, he should be able to view it on any platform he pleases; he should not be locked into a specific platform. Accordingly, CCIA supports an exception to Section 1201 that would permit the development, sale, and use of a product that enables DVDs to run on Linux.

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Respectfully Submitted,

Jason M. Mahler
Vice President and General Counsel
Computer & Communications Industry Association
jmahler@ccianet.org

Computer & Communications Industry Association members:

Amdahl Corporation
AT&T Corporation
Bell Atlantic Corporation
Block Financial Corporation
CAI/SISCo
Cerebellum Software
Commercial Data Servers, Inc.
CommonRoad Corporation
Datum, Inc.
Entegrity Solutions Corporation
Fujitsu Limited
Giga Information Group
Government Sales Consultants, Inc.
Hitachi Data Systems, Inc.
Intuit, Inc.
MERANT
NetCom Solutions International, Inc.
NOKIA, Inc.
Nortel Networks
NTT America, Inc.
Okidata
Oracle Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Tantivy Communications, Inc.
Telesciences, Inc.
Sabre Inc.
TSI International Software, Ltd.
VeriSign, Inc.
Viatel, Inc.
ViON Corporation
Yahoo! Inc.

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