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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