Digital Media Consumers Rights Act

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If you're not familiar with this act, one of the main things it's meant to do is restore fair use taken away by the DMCA.

It was first submitted in October 2002, as HR 107, and then resubmitted last year.

Here is the bill as submitted before the 107th Congress in 2002:

www.techlawjournal.com/cong10...ill.asp

And as it was resubmitted last year before the 108th Congress:

www.theorator.com/bills108/hr107.html

Here are some articles that offer more info on the bill and discuss the pros and cons:

www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dmcrasec.htm

www.publicknowledge.org/conten...n-dmcra

www.cato.org/tech/tk/030113-tk.html

And on May 12th there will be a Congressional hearing on the DMCRA where the head of 321 Studios, the makers of DVD X Copy, will also be testifying:

biz.yahoo.com/prnews/0404...gf047_1.html
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