Protect Fair Use with HR 107
EVERYONE, please please please visit ProtectFairUse.org and use the form to e-mail your House Representative to support HR 107.
Better yet, call your representative.
I am calling with regard to HR 107, the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act of 2003.
As a concerned voter, it is critically important to me and many other Internet users that this bill pass on Wednesday.
That it prevents mislabelling of so-called “copy-proteced CDs,” which are actually in violation of the Redbook Compact Disk standard, is laudable.
However, the amendments it proposes to section 1201 of Title 17 of the United States Code — added by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998 — for scientific research and the restoration of the principle of fair use are key. This bill will bring back rights belonging to the people which have been taken away by the DMCA.
Thank for your time.
If you are unfamiliar with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and its atrocities to consumer rights on media, visit http://eff.org/IP/DRM/DMCA/.
This entry was posted on Sunday, May 9th, 2004 at 14:23 and is tagged technology. 