[CLUE-Talk] Fwd: FC: Bush administration is cool to Sen. Hollings' copyright bill

[Charlie Oriez]

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Subject: FC: Bush administration is cool to Sen. Hollings' copyright 
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 13:57:00 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
To: politech at politechbot.com


Text of Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion
 Act: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/

Politech archive on the CBDTPA:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cbdtpa

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52145,00.html

   White House Cool to Hollings' Act
   By Declan McCullagh

   2:00 a.m. April 27, 2002 PDT
   WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is lukewarm on a plan to
 embed copy-protection technology in software and consumer
 electronics.

   James Rogan, the Commerce Department's undersecretary for
 intellectual property, has expressed mild skepticism about a bill
 championed by Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South
 Carolina).

   "Before Congress rushes into the imposition of a legislative
   solution," Rogan said, "I hope its members will grant more time
 for the free market to find its own middle ground."

   Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
 is the entertainment industry's boldest attempt yet to compel the
 computer industry to adopt software and hardware standards aimed at
 reducing illicit copying. It requires that "any hardware or
 software" that could be used to copy digital content include
 anti-piracy technologies.

   Rogan, who advises President Bush on copyright matters and runs
 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is a big fan of the 1998
 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) -- a controversial law
 that's currently the subject of at least three lawsuits.

   At a conference on Thursday, Rogan said: "The DMCA carefully
 balances the interests of all stakeholders to ensure that content
 owners would enjoy the protection they need to put their works on
 the Internet and to ensure that appropriate fair use is maintained
 for consumers, scientists and educators."

   [...]



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