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	DMCRA
		The DMCRA bill was introduced to the House on January 7 2003 as H.
		The DMCRA provides that it is not a violation of Section 1201 of Title 17 (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA) to circumvent a technological measure in connection with gaining access to or using a work if the circumvention does not result in an infringement of the copyright in the work.
		The DMCRA also would specify that it is not a violation of Section 1201 of the DMCA to manufacture, distribute, or make non-infringing use of a hardware or software product capable of enabling significant non-infringing use of a copyrighted work.
	www.studycrime.com /Copyright-Law/DMCRA.php (674 words)

	New Bill Cares for the Consumer - MegaGames pc
		The second important aspect of the DMCRA will be to balance some provisions of the DMCA which were intended to protect copyrights but are increasingly used to protect business models.
		One such use of the DMCA cause a user who has legally downloaded a song, digitally protected with Windows Media, to be prohibited from conveniently converting his or her song to play on his or her iPod.
		The DMCRA would ensure that legal, non-infringing uses are not prohibited by the DMCA.
	www.megagames.com /news/html/pc/newbillcaresfortheconsumer.shtml (547 words)

	AALL Washington Affairs: Action Alert, January 8, 2003
		The DMCRA of 2003 is identical to last year's bill and would restore the historic balance in copyright law by repealing key portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
		AALL was one of a large and diverse coalition that applauded the introduction of the DMCRA last October.
		Second, the DMCRA would specify that it is not a violation of Section 1201 of the DMCA to manufacture, distribute, or make non-infringing use of a hardware or software product capable of enabling significant non-infringing use of a copyrighted work.
	www.ll.georgetown.edu /aallwash/aa01082003.html (640 words)

	The DMCRA is Consistent With the DMCA
		Opponents of H.R. 107 claim that the DMCRA would weaken, undermine, gut, eviscerate, or otherwise wreak havoc with the DMCA –; that the exception would swallow the rule.
		The principal driver for the DMCA was to comply with international treaties which require the parties to provide protection against circumvention of technological measures to gain access that is not (a) authorized by the copyright holder or (b) authorized by law.
		The DMCRA would make the DMCA consistent with the international uniform plan envisioned in the WIPO treaties, and prevent Americans from becoming second class world citizens when it comes to accessing works of authorship.
	interactionlaw.com /id9.html (915 words)

	INDICARE Project - Consumer issues on digital rights management (DRM)
		The DMCRA has four pillars: three that relate to fair use and the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, and a fourth that seeks to augment the transparency for consumers towards the use of technological measures.
		The most fundamental modification the DMCRA would bring to the DMCA is that the circumvention of a technological measure is deemed legitimate as long as the purpose of the circumvention is legitimate.
		A fourth pillar of the DMCRA stands alone from the previous three, which are connected to the fair use principle.
	www.indicare.org /tiki-read_article.php?articleId=70 (2502 words)

	AALL Washington Affairs: Press Release 10/03/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By introducing the DMCRA, Congressmen Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) recognize that it is now time for Congress to recalibrate the DMCA to safeguard the interests of the public.
		The DMCRA is essential to the future conduct of research and education in the digital age.
		We urge members of Congress to support the DMCRA as essential to promoting research and education in a digital environment.
	www.ll.georgetown.edu /aallwash/pr10032002.html (350 words)

	Matt Rolls a Hoover
		The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA) is an attempt to correct some of the imbalances of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
		Boucher has written the DMCRA to restore the rights given under copyright law to customers that have been taken away by the DMCA.
		The DMCRA would state that breaking copy prevention for noninfringing uses would no longer be a violation of the DMCA.
	mattrolls.blogspot.com /2004_05_09_mattrolls_archive.html (4206 words)

	Fair use is not just one copy!
		I was particularly unhappy with his proclamation that the most important reason the DMCRA shouldn't be adopted is because the DMCRA legalizes hacking.
		The statement, at root, is just a more elegantly-stated version of Suzanne Conway's "If you change copyright law, then you are changing copyright law!" (from the Ottawa consultation meeting of 11 April 2002).
		Instead of saying "The DMCRA would be like allowing my students to plagiarize each others' essays!" you should consider that without the DMCRA, your students are not allowed to write their essays in accordance with standard scholarly practice in the first place.
	ansuz.sooke.bc.ca /lawpoli/copyright/consultations/2004051201.php (1353 words)

	Boing Boing: Why the DMCRA is the right answer to the theft of the public domain
		Why the DMCRA is the right answer to the theft of the public domain
		Representatives Boucher and Doolittle have introduced a bill, the DMCRA, that mitigates some of the worst elements of the current copyright regime, especially in the DMCA.
		Opponents of the DMCRA argue that if we allow circumvention to make noninfringing use, it will make it easier to circumvent the same technologies for infringing use.
	www.boingboing.net /2003/01/15/why_the_dmcra_is_the.html (329 words)

	The Committee on Energy and Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		First, the DMCRA’s labeling provision will ensure that consumers are fully aware of the limitations and restrictions they may encounter when purchasing copy-protected compact discs (CDs).
		The DMCRA does not prohibit the sale of copy-protected CDs; instead it requires that the Federal Trade Commission provide guidelines so that these CDs have adequate labels notifying purchasers of possible limitations of their use of purchased digital media.
		The DMCRA ensures that new CD formats do not enter the marketplace without providing consumers notice of their limitations.
	energycommerce.house.gov /108/Hearings/05122004hearing1265/Sohn1995.htm (3666 words)

	DVD Digest - Editorial/Opinion - News Roundup: New CD copy protection, the DMCRA and DVD censorship
		And a follow-up to the last news roundup, Congressman Rick Boucher's proposed amendments to the flawed DMCA, the DMCRA Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act), appears to have gained the support of a coalition of technology companies that includes some big names, such as Intel, Sun Microsystems, Verizon Communications, SBC, Qwest, Gateway and BellSouth.
		Their support comes because of the concern that consumer fair use has been harmed by the DMCA, and more important, that the DMCA might endanger computer research vital to national security.
		The passing of the DMCRA looks to be more likely now than before.
	www.digital-digest.com /dvd/shownews.php?newsid=126 (502 words)

	H.R.1201: Digital Media Consumer's Rights Act of 2005 (DMCRA) \| Public Knowledge
		Introduced by U.S. Representative Rick Boucher, the DMCRA requires labels on copy-protected compact discs and restores the legal use of digital content and scientific research prohibited by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
		The DMCRA would help ensure that consumers are fully aware of the limitations and restrictions they may encounter when purchasing copy-protected compact discs (CDs).
		The DMCRA does not prohibit the sale of copy-protected CDs; instead it requires that the Federal Trade Commission provide guidelines so that these CDs have adequate labels notifying purchasers of possible limitations.
	www.publicknowledge.org /issues/hr1201 (817 words)

	AALLNET Press: Press Releases 030116
		Introduced in the House of Representatives in October 2002, the DMCRA would restore the historic balance in copyright law by repealing key portions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998.
		The DMCRA would prohibit circumvention only when the purpose is to infringe copyright.
		Lastly, the DMCRA would direct the Federal Trade Commission to ensure that record companies provide adequate notification on copy-protected CDs, clearly indicating that copying those CDs and playing them in various devices is prohibited.
	www.aallnet.org /press/press030116_a.asp (270 words)

	Gnutella.com
		The DMCRA codifies a doctrine, outlined by the Supreme Court in its 1984 "Betamax" decision, which states that technologies with "substantial non-infringing uses" cannot be stifled by copyright holders.
		A vote for HR 107, the DMCRA, is a vote in favor of those you represent, the American
		However, due to unintended sided effects of the the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, many of these carefully guarded consumer rights are under attack again by the music recording and motion picture industries.
	www.gnutella.com /news/12031 (1961 words)

	Boing Boing: Congress needs to hear support for the DMCRA!
		Slashdot has a story about various big copyright-holder groups contacting their members, urging them to write to Congress to get the DMCRA locked up in committee.
		The DMCRA is a bill introduced by Rick Boucher to take the modest steps of requiring the labelling of CDs, DVDs and other products with DRM in them, and to allow Americans to circumvent DRM when for a lawful purpose (i.e., watching foreign DVDs on a domestic DVD player).
		The DMCRA would protect consumers from buying "copy protected" audio compact discs that may not work in personal computers, cars, and other consumer devices.
	www.boingboing.net /2004/05/09/congress_needs_to_he.html (335 words)

	IPac - Digital Media Consumer's Rights Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		DMCRA, H.R.) would roll back pieces of the infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
		The DMCRA codifies a doctrine, outlined by the Supreme Court in its 1984 "Betamax" decision, which holds that technologies with "substantial non-infringing uses" cannot be stifled by copyright holders.
		IPac candidate Rick Boucher wrote and introduced this bill, and it currently has 23 cosponsors including IPac candidates Joe Barton, Christopher Cox, John Doolittle, and Zoe Lofgren.
	ipaction.org /dmcra.html (184 words)

	A strategy to build support for the DMCRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The role chosen for this assignment was an aide to Rep. Rick Boucher and the paper is written as a memo to him in response to a request from him to forumlate a strategy which partly focuses on the computer underground.
		[15] Comer has said that the DMCRA is needed to correct the balance between content owners’ rights and fair use of that content.
		You need to stress this broad support to others and build upon it to emphasize how many different types of groups, companies, and people care about what this bill stands for. When others realize how widespread the support is for this bill, anyone attacking it will likely find themselves on a very lonely island.
	cybercrimes.net /ldf/CCarticles/dmcra.html (2376 words)

	Joe Barton: firmly behind DMCRA
		The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Trade, Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing on HR 107 is promising, says von Lohmann, but, "The biggest ray of hope came during a lunch session that took place during a recess in the testimony of the 13 witnesses," he states.
		This is the first time a DMCA reform bill has made it to the hearing stage.
		"Its success is a testament to the efforts of the roughly 30,000 citizens who have used EFF?s Action Center to write to Congress to support the DMCRA, as well as the efforts of 321 Studios, which has hired lobbyists to explain the importance of fair use in the digital age," says the EFF.
	dvdxcopy.afterdawn.com /thread_view.cfm/85246 (260 words)

	This is really not for just software, the DMCRA... - Short-Media Forums
		I would be interested to hear what other people think of the definition of fair use.
		This is just the tip of the iceberg as the DMCA is consistantly being used as an argument to protect supposed intellectual property (IP) in new and interesting ways.
		Then again, perhaps it already has with the decline in CD sales over the last few years.
	www.short-media.com /forum/showthread.php?t=14462 (1924 words)

	J!NX Forums - DMCRA reintroduced
		Posted - 02/03/2003 : 10:57:29 AM The DMCRA, which would put limits on the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been reintroduced.
		Please write to your representatives in Congress and tell them what you think about the DMCA and how the DMCRA will help protect our rights.
		Remember Dimitry, that does not have to happen again (and didnt in the first place).
	www.jinx.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=187 (72 words)

	CoCo: MGM's Concession and the DMCRA
		This concession was a focal point during the hearing on the DMCRA, which seeks to reaffirm fair use for consumers and (re)establish the Betamax standard that stood at the centre of yesterdays Supreme Court hearings.
		The DMCRA would give consumers a "right", taken from them by the DMCA, to circumvent copy protections in order to make a fair use.
		That ripping a complete CD or DVD was a fair use was contested by the entertainment industry, of which Valenti represented the movie studios.
	constitutionalcode.blogspot.com /2005/03/mgms-concession-and-dmcra.html (483 words)

	Another Reason to Support the DMCRA: Corante > Copyfight >
		Doing so would help safeguard the ability of computer scientists to test the integrity of electronic voting machines.
		What he was doing was almost certainly completely legal, yet he got a threatening letter nonetheless (which was swiftly withdrawn).
		I'm not personally aware of legislation to introduce such penalties, but there may be a court penalty (for example, awarding legal costs) in the Diebold case.
	copyfight.corante.com /archives/003652.html (413 words)

	ALA \| American Library Association Legislative Counsel Miriam M. Nisbet Testified on Capitol Hill Today in support of ...
		The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provided additional protections for copyright owners, but at the same time omitted corresponding allowances for fair use and other exceptions.
		The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA) is widely viewed by some as the first significant digital rights bill, and a credible attempt to modify some of the excesses in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
		To begin to do that, the Library community strongly believes that the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA) is needed in order to restore a proper balance in copyright law between the rights of copyright users and the rights of copyright owners," said Ms.
	www.ala.org /ala/pr2004/may2004/DMCRA2004.htm (290 words)

	Pocosin.com » Blog Archive » What is the DMCRA proposing?
		I want to provide a little more information on the DMCRA that is up for consideration in Congress.
		See A short analysis of the May 2004 Hearing on the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act by Rik Lambers as originally posted on the “INformed DIalogue about Consumer Acceptability of DRM Solutions in Europe” (INDICARE) web-site.
		I think you will agree that this proposed Law benefits everyone–gives us the ability to copy our music and content to view on our devices without promoting the illegal distribution of copyrighted material.
	wordpress.pocosin.com /?p=63 (279 words)

	Copyright Alphabet Soup: University of Illinois
		Within this site, the DMCA seeks to update the U.S. copyright laws for the digital age in preparation for ratification of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties.
		Key topics included in the DMCA are the circumvention of copyright protection systems, fair use in a digital environment, and online service provider (OSP) liability (including details on safe harbors, damages...).
		It resolves concerns regarding hardware and software that permit significant non-infringing uses, and it allows researchers to engage in the scientific research of technological protection measures.
	www.uic.edu /depts/lib/copyright/alphabetsoup.shtml (186 words)

	Send a message: support the DMCRA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, even a group this powerful can't stop determined lawmakers from pushing the issue forward, but you can bet your booty they've got a tough road ahead.
		Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle recently re-introduced the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 107), which would enact labelling [sic] requirements for usage-impaired "copy-protected" compact discs, as well as several amendments to 1998's infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
		Hit the EFF's site, fill out the information (utterly painless), and send a letter to your representative asking them to co-sponsor.
	arstechnica.com /news/posts/1044293380.html (527 words)

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