Sweeting: HE WHO SHOUTS LOUDEST.(digital video disk copyright law)(Brief Article)

Video Business, October, 2000

A surprisingly long roster of interest groups has come forward to demand that DVDs be exempt from the anticircumvention provision, in effect to make it legal to hack DVDs. The workings of the U.S. Copyright Office seldom get a lot of attention, even in Washington where people are attuned to the creaky wheels of government.

But two reports due from that obscure corner of the bureaucracy this week could go a long way toward shaping the development of the home video industry. On Oct. 28, the Copyright Office will issue its recommendations as to whether any "class of work" should be exempt from the encryption circumvention provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That provision, scheduled to go into effect the same day, will make it...

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