RIAA opposes fair use bill: recording industry trade group fears piracy.(LEGAL)

Macworld, May, 2007 by Gross, Grant

With the popularity of sites such as YouTube, there's been a lot of talk lately about the concept of fair use. A new bill in the U.S. Congress aimed at protecting fair use rights for consumers of copyrighted material, however, would "legalize hacking," in the words of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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The Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship (FAIR USE) Act, introduced in late February 2007 by U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and John Doolittle, a California Republican, would let customers circumvent digital copy restrictions in six limited areas when copyright owners' business models are not threatened, said Boucher in a press release. So-called fair use...

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