Valenti was replaced by a politician, Dan Glickman: http://p2pnet.net/story/1812
I don't expect the situation to improve as long as Hollywood funds a huge lobbying effort on Capitol Hill. --- -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hahaha now that was funny, but sadly makes me want > to never buy a DVD or > goto a movie again, if that is the fool running the > MPAA. My favorite > quotes: > > "Now, fair use is not in the law. People are taking > fair use and changing > it to unfair use and claiming that it?s fair use." > > Uhhh hello? Section 107 of the US copyright law? > > http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107 > > "When you go to your department store and you buy 10 > Cognac glasses and > two weeks later you break two of them, the store > doesnt give you two > backup copies. Where did this backup copy thing come > from? A digital thing > lasts forever. " > > Uhh "backup copy thing"? Review Universal Studios > vs Sony (1984) (AKA > the Betamax case). > > ray > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, John Cole wrote: > > > John- > > > > The lovely Jack Valenti does not believe that you > have fair use rights. > > > > http://www.engadget.com/entry/8536544887710643/ > > > > He's a prince among men! > > > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 06:48:13 -0700 (PDT), John > Hebert > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Nice to have when you want to practice your > fair use > > > rights and share your movie with a friend who > does not > > > own a DVD player. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush
