CHIPPING AWAY AT THE DMCA.(Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998)(Brief Article)

Video Business, March, 2001

The movie and music industries have good reason to feel picked on. You can tell how threatened one side in a debate feels by how personal it allows the battle to get. By that measure, movie and music industry representatives at last week's Digital Download conference in Washington were feeling pretty ganged up on.

At one point during the Digital Freedom vs. Digital Restraint panel, MPAA executive VP for government affairs Fritz Attaway burst out, "The quickest way to get sued in this country isn't by violating copyright, it's by violating patents of one of Gary Shapiro's companies." That, of course, was a reference to the event's organizer and president of the Consumer Electronics Association. On another panel, Recording Industry Association of...

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