p2pnet - rss feed: RIAA says Fair Use Act isn’t fair
p2pnet.net news:- H.R. 1201, the Fair Use Act, isn’t fair, says Big 4 record label cartel.
It would “would effectively repeal the DMCA,” declare EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) through their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
“The difference between hacking done for non-infringing purposes and hacking done to steal is impossible to determine and enforce,” the IDG News Service has the RIAA declaring.
The Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing US Entrepreneurship (Fair Use) Act has just been introduced by Rick Boucher and John Doolittle.
“The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the public’s right to fair use,” Boucher said. “The Fair Use Act will assure that consumers who purchase digital media can enjoy a broad range of uses of the media for their own convenience in a way which does not infringe the copyright in the work,” Boucher explained.
It would allow customers to by-pass DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control in six “discrete” areas which don’t threaten coopyright owners’ business models, and to make limited numbers of copies.
But the bill would “allow electronics companies to induce others to break the law for their own profit,” says the RIAA, according to IDG.
“The difference between hacking done for non-infringing purposes and hacking done to steal is impossible to determine and enforce,” the RIAA stated.
Says the Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC) of the Fair Use Act:
“In suits for iindirecti infringement, aimed at legitimate products like the VCR, it limits copyright owners to actual damages rather than out of scale ’statutory’ rewards, unless the conduct is clearly and obviously illegal.
“It codifies the Supreme Court’s ‘Betamax’ holding that findings of indirect infringement should not be based on the design of consumer electronics or computer devices, or on their design or selection of components, if the device has a substantial non-infringing use.
“It codifies consumer protections as recently formulated by the US Register of Copyrights: That activities of consumers, librarians, and educators in using content at home or for other constructive purposes that are legitimate under the copyright law should not be held to be violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).”
Also See:
Fair Use Act - Fair Use Act introduced, February 27, 2007
IDG News Service - RIAA opposes new fair use bill, February 28, 2007
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March 1st, 2007 at 9:55 am
‘”The difference between hacking done for non-infringing purposes and hacking done to steal is impossible to determine and enforce,” the IDG News Service has the RIAA declaring.’
-hmmm, so following the RIAA logic, all guns should be banned because we cannot determine which would be used for good or bad? All medical drugs should be banned no matter how helpful they are, as we cannot tell if they are going to be used for good or bad? All vehicles should be taken off the road as they could be used in a crime? All tax laws should be revised so there are no more deductions as they may be abused? All politicians should be charged as they may be dirty or chasing pages.
- Their have been incidences where record companies have taken advantage of artists (and customers good faith) there fore since we cannot know which are good record companies and which are bad, they should all be disbanded and the execs thrown in jail?
I’d hate to live in the *IAA’s world where large companies are seen as doing good, as opposed to doing whatever it takes to make a buck. The only time they ‘do good’ is when they think it necessary for public relations (or to get out of paying taxes, tough the public relations still applies as well). Of course in the *IAA’s world the ordinary people ae just there to feed money to the *IAA’s.
March 1st, 2007 at 12:06 pm
“The difference between hacking done for non-infringing purposes and hacking done to steal is impossible to determine and enforce,”
What is that about enforcing a difference?
Perhaps they should lear no speak first.
March 1st, 2007 at 1:06 pm
“- Their have been incidences where record companies have taken advantage of artists (and customers good faith) there fore since we cannot know which are good record companies and which are bad, they should all be disbanded and the execs thrown in jail? ”
I would sleep much better at night if this happened.
March 1st, 2007 at 6:24 pm
“Perhaps they should lear no speak first.”
Irony.
March 1st, 2007 at 7:57 pm
The problem is we don’t know if the execs of any company are good or bad, remember Enron? Companies are obviously good and bad, and since we obviously cannot tell which is which, they’ll just all have to be shut down. Oh and governments too. Same reasons obviously. Oh, and people. There are bad people out there too, so we’ll all have to die to ensure there are no bad people. Pity.
March 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
The RIAA commenting on what’s fair is like Osama Bin Laden commenting on mercy.