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

[jbrockmeier at earthlink.net]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Charlie Oriez wrote:

>    "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."
 
Loosely translated: 

"We want to stick it to customers just as much as Disney, but we're
pretty sure if we pass a law like this it will be overturned, so
we're going to scare the hardware and software industries into
doing this themselves - just like we did in the 80's and 90's with
the PMRC to the record companies." 

>    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."

Loosely translated:

"Not really." 

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