I guess you can attemp to kill it, but it’s designed to make it easier for the distributors of digital music to provide consumers with the kinds of digital services they desire.

SIRA Does Not Harm Fair Use

The Section 115 Reform Act (SIRA) provides digital and online music services with legal clarity, administrative simplicity and freedom to innovate without risk of infringement litigation.

SIRA does not:
1. reduce fair use or consumer rights
2. increase the cost of digital music, or
3. obligate music services or technology providers to take a license or pay royalties with respect to activities that previously did not require a license or royalties.

Section 115 of the Copyright Act has never defined rights of creators, copyright owners or consumers. It has never defined limitations on rights (including fair use); nor has it ever obligated any individual or company to use the license with respect to any activity.

- A 115 license post-SIRA will authorize “incidental”, “cached”, “network” and “RAM buffer” copies for the protection of licensees, i.e., to ensure that licensees’ are immune from infringement risk for all activity associated with providing the licensed service, beginning with storage of the music on servers and continuing through distribution of the music to consumers.

- SIRA does not change existing law regarding any party’s obligations or liability that may (or may not) be associated with unauthorized or unlicensed reproduction of copyrighted works (including music) on servers, networks, caches or RAM buffers.

- SIRA includes a savings clause to ensure that no inadvertent obligations or liability are created, and that there is no negative inference with respect to unlicensed activity or activity governed by other provisions of the Copyright Act.

Section 115 has always been just a license, SIRA will provide a clear, simple licensing mechanism for digital music distributors and services to utilize if they choose.

- The license defined by SIRA is mandatory for copyright owners to offer, but voluntary for music services to use.

- SIRA explicitly identifies that the license authorizes end user reproductions associated with a music service in order to protect the service, e.g., iTunes, Rhapsody or XM Radio, against infringement actions initiated against a provider for secondary or “enabling” liability associated with customers’ enjoyment of the service.

- The license is not available to consumers, does not obligate consumers to pay a royalty, and does not limit consumer rights in any way.

- SIRA includes a savings clause to explicitly ensure that it does not change fair use law.

The RIAA and EFF will unite to kill this bill, each for their own reasons.

i break copyright laws. i dont give a **** about sira

all USA readers need to write to their representatives to get this dropped – this is a disaster in the making