Public Knowledge Urges Support For Alternative Copyright Legislation

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 [Public Knowledge - Content] “We are pleased that so many other groups are with us on the need for an alternative approach,” Sohn said. The draft language, sent to the...

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[Cites.boisestate.edu] Cites & Insights 4:14 - Copyright Currents: A September 10 item from Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) picks up where we left off: “Betamax under siege again.” The article considers the Copyright Office’s version of IICA (mentioned last time around), notes that the tried-and-true Betamax defense would be replaced with a new three-part test, and asserts that “the Copyright Office is proposing that copyright owners get a new exclusive right over a certain subset of machines that are capable of ‘disseminating’ copyrighted works.” “If this isn’t about using copyright law to squash disruptive technological innovation, I don’t know what is.” He believes that, had this act existed in 1976, the VCR and cassette recorder would both be banned.

[Darknet.com] Darknet: File sharing: `This is the Hail Mary pass on the part of the content industry to try to put the entire technology sector under their thumb,'' said Fred von Lohmann, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is representing StreamCast. ``That's something they could never get Congress to do, but that's precisely what they would like the Supreme Court to do for them.'' .

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Posted at August 03, 2005 07:25 AM