Subject: shaping of copyright policy
Curt Priest (cpriest@juno.com)
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 11:41:47 EST
To: ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG Subject: shaping of copyright policy Message-Id: <19980402.114113.4247.11.cpriest@juno.com> From: cpriest@juno.com (Curt Priest) Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 11:41:47 EST
Title: House Panel Backs Copyright Bill
Source: New York Times (CyberTimes)
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/04/cyber/articles/02copyright.html>
Author: Jeri Clausing
Issue: Intellectual Property
Description: The House Judiciary Committee endorsed a copyright bill
Wednesday that includes a compromise between online service providers
and content providers that "limits Internet service providers'
liability for unwittingly hosting or transmitting illegal copies of
copyrighted material.
The provision is part of a broader bill intended to bring an
international treaty on intellectual property protections into the
digital age." Critics are concerned that the bill might further increase
the dominance of companies like Microsoft by criminalizing the
technology used to reproduce copyrighted material that smaller
competitors often utilize to make sure that different brands of software
and computer products are compatible. "They are making it a crime,
literally, to find out what the interfaces are so I can make
interoperable products," said John Scheibel, vice president and general
counsel of the Computer & Communications Industry Assoc.
"There is a lot of concern that this bill will have the unwanted
consequence of cooling the development of technology," said Rep. Zoe
Lofgren (D-CA). But she said she hopes that before the bill passes the
full House, that members "can find the language that won't do more than
we intend to do."
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