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 Rick Boucher's Fair Rights bill is finally getting fair treatment at today's Congressional hearing, Hollywood efforts to mash it notwithstanding. Boucher and John Doolittle re-introduced the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, HR 107) which would enact labelling requirements for 'usage-impaired copy-protected' compact discs, as well as amendments to Hollywood's infamous 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). HR 107 would allow people to by-pass DRM systems to make copies for personal use, and would also let academics do the same for research purposes. As 321 Studios founder and president Bob Moore - one of those giving evidence - sums it up, HR 107 "would re-affirm consumer fair use rights and balance the otherwise one-sided protection afforded copyright owners under current interpretations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act". And it will require content creators to "label copy-protected works accordingly," says a Reuters story here. Hollywood - which is behind the bill both literally and figuratively - has been pulling out all the stops to get HR 107 mashed. A recent effort in this direction has the PPA (Professional Photographers of America) claiming HR 107 would, "give hackers explicit permission to distribute software and hardware devices designed to defeat copyright protection technology". "Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton, who took command of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in February, said current law should be scaled back to allow consumers to make personal copies and exercise other long-established 'fair use' rights, now prohibited under a 1998 digital-copyright law," says Reuters, referring to the DMCA which, rumour has it, dvd copy was originally dreamed up by former RIAA boss Hilary Rosen. "The balance between consumers' rights and producers' rights over copyright material needs to be restored," Barton is quoted as saying. But, brandishing a bootleg copy of Runaway Jury, the MPAA's (Motion Picture Association of America) Jack Valenti declared, "The honest people will do right, but dishonest people will not do right and, in the digital age, that is a devastation I just don't want to comprehend," says Reuters, adding that a Barton spokeswoman said she didn't know when the committee would vote on the measure. Copyright © 2004-2005 AEPsoft Inc. - All Rights
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