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RIAA: No Way To DMCA Fair Use Reform
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 2:00 PM - by Jeff Gamet
A bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representative aims to change the strict limitations of fair use of music recordings imposed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is dead set against seeing it pass. Slyck News reports that the RIAA claims that H.R. 1201, also known as the Boucher/Doolittle Fair Use Act, would essentially legalize hacking.
The RIAA stated that if passed, the bill "would repeal the DMCA and legalize hacking. It would reverse the Supreme Court's decision in Grokster and allow electronics companies to induce others to break the law for their own profit. And it would eliminate new lower-priced digital options for consumers in the marketplace."
H.R. 1201 will allow consumers to circumvent certain restrictions applied to the digital copies of CDs and DVDs when those copies don't have a material impact on the copyright holders. In essence, it offers a government blessing to make backups of music and movies for personal use.
The RIAA, however, see it as a government endorsement for piracy.
Since the RIAA was instrumental in getting the DMCA passed, it's likely that the organization would also have to support any changes to the act before they could successfully be enacted. The firm stance the group has against these changes may ultimately doom the bill to failure.
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