The FAIR USE Act of 2007 is a bill that would reform the DMCA, restoring traditional fair use as one of 12 major exemptions to the DMCA and codifying the Betamax Doctrine that protects the creators of tools with significant non-infringing purposes should their tools be abused for copyright violations. This bill seems like something we have been awaiting for a long time, so I recommend that we move quickly with our support.
[EFF info with link to full text.][1] UPDATE: One of our UPenn alumns, Bill Herman, [writes in support of the FAIR USE Act of 2007][2], despite some reservations because it is a bit less awesome than the DMCA reform bill Boucher sponsored in 2005. UPDATE 2: Check out the [OpenCongress page for H.R. 1201][3]. [1]: http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=271 [2]: http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/03/01/debating-the-dmca-reform-bill/ [3]: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1201/show URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2007/03/01/fair-use-act-of-2007/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
