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Article: STUCK IN COMMITTEE.(Digital Millennium Copyright Act report released)
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- Video Business
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- September 10, 2001
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The Copyright Office report seems designed to discourage anyone in Congress from seriously revisiting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or its impact.
For all its 250-page heft, there's actually more to the digital first sale report released by the U.S. Copyright Office last month than meets the eye (VB, 9-3).
The preparation and delivery of the report was written into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1993 in response to concerns voiced by opponents of the new law that its provisions barring the circumvention of access and copy-control technologies could effectively deprive consumers and other users of copyrighted material from exercising the ...