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FYI.....
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> COMMENT PERIOD OPENS FOR DMCA
> The latest federally mandated public comment period on the Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) opened this week and will end on
> December 18. Passage of the DMCA in 1998 included stipulations that the
> U.S. Copyright Office would conduct periodic reviews of the law. One of
> the most often discussed elements of the law is a prohibition on
> circumventing technological protections for copyrighted work. This
> anti-circumvention provision is expected to draw a significant number
> of comments in the review period. The Copyright Office is responsible
> for determining exceptions to the anti-circumvention provision. Groups
> opposed to the DMCA, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, hope
> that the review will lead to more consideration from the Copyright
> Office for research and other legitimate activities that are threatened
> by the DMCA. The group noted, however, that real change cannot happen
> until the law is amended, despite ongoing review cycles.
> PCWorld, 20 November 2002
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107129,00.as
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