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Letter to Rob Kasunic re: August 21 Supplemental Questions to DVD-Related Hearing Panelists (Sept. 8, 2009)
Letter to Rob Kasunic, principal legal advisor, US Copyright Office, in response to questions about proposed DVD-related exemptions to Section 1201. lt-kasunic-dvdpanel-08sep09.pdf
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In the Matter of Exemption to the Prohibition of Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies Docket No. RM 2008-8
Pursuant to the Notice of Inquiry (NOI) published by the Copyright Office in the Federal Register on October 6, 2008, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) and the Music Library Association...
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In the Matter of Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies: Comments from the Library Associations
Comments submitted in response to the US Copyright Office's Notice of Inquiry (NOI) dated October 15, 2002, on whether noninfringing uses of certain classes of works are likely to be...
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Recording Industry Association of America, Inc., Appellee v. Verizon Internet Services, Inc., Appellant
On December 19, 2003, reversing the rulings of the lower court, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Verizon. In a case...
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Letter to Sam Brownback re: Consumers, Schools and Libraries Digital Rights Management Awareness Act of 2003 (Sept. 24, 2003)
Library association letter endorsing the "Consumers, Schools and Libraries Digital Rights Management Awareness Act of 2003," S. 1621. drm-awareness-act-2003-endorse.pdf
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Memo to Directors: “Super” DMCA Legislation in the States
The Motion Picture Industry Association of America (MPAA), cable operators, and others are aggressively promoting model legislation in quite a few states that would amend state telecommunications and cable security...
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Press Release: “Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act of 2002 (DMCRA)” Endorsement
The Association of Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association are extremely pleased to endorse the...
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
On October 12, 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a complex piece of legislation which makes major changes in U.S. copyright law to address the digitally networked...
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Sec. 104 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Comments of the Digital Future Coalition dfc-104-comments-16aug01.pdf