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Submitted: November 17, 2005 - 8:48am
Last updated: February 20, 2008 - 11:49pm
Last updated: February 20, 2008 - 11:49pm
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
A House Subcommittee began a series of hearings Wednesday to try and come up with a scheme for balancing fair use and copyright protection in the digital age. It is one of the key issues for content providers going forward, and one that the industry has been unable to come to agreement on. Central to the hearing was H.R. 1201, a bill that would amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow content protections to be bypassed for fair use copying. Currently it is illegal to do so, which means that a DVD cannot be copied for personal use at, say a beach house, or for downloading to a video iPod. Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) called that fair use "lockout" a perversion of the law.
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