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Digital Rights Backdoor US Stylee

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:25:40 +0100 To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk From: Donald ramsbottom <donald@ramsbottom.co.uk> Subject: Digital Rights Backdoor US Stylee Send reply to: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk

>From E Commerce Law Week ,Snippet :

"Will Digital Rights Management Slip Into Law Through the Back Door? 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.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 2395, the "Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002" "

Donald Ramsbottom BA LLb (Hons) PGdip Ramsbottom & Co Solicitors Internet and Global Encryption Law Specialists & General UK Law Matters 5 Seagrove Avenue Hayling Island Hampshire UK Tel (44) 023 9246 5931 Fax (44) 023 9246 8349 Service by Fax or Email NOT accepted

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