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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedExemption contempt: for DMCA warriors, reality has ceased to be an organizing principle of their convictions.(Headliners)(a discussion of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
Video Business, November, 2003 by Sweeting, Paul
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * Opponents of the DMCA threw everything they had at the Copyright Office, seeking exemptions for regional coding, works in the public domain, DVD backup copying, bonus materials, etc. * The studios refuse to budge, and so does the Copyright Office. WASHINGTON -- In preparing its latest report to the Librarian of Congress on possible exemptions to tire Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the U.S.
Copyright Office received more comments on a proposal to permit DVD owners to override region codes on their discs than on any other topic. In addition to the usual critics of the DMCA, more than 100 submissions came in from individuals who had bought DVD outside the U.S. only to find they wouldn't play on their U.S.-purchased...
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