New Report from Public Knowledge About Copyright Reform Act
[Source: Public Knowledge, May 11, 2010]
Public Knowledge present the second installment of the Copyright Reform Act (CRA) series: a proposal to temper some of the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The proposed amendments would empower users to circumvent digital locks (a.k.a. DRM) to make lawful uses of works and allow technologists to sell software that would break those locks. Public Knowledge hopes that these changes will ensure that tools designed to protect copyrighted works don’t also lock up legal uses and disturb the balance struck by our copyright laws.
This installment of the CRA is accompanied by another white paper detailing the rationales behind our proposed reforms. The report, entitled “Updating 17 U.S.C. § 1201 for Innovators, Creators, and Consumers in the Digital Age,” was written by students Pan C. Lee, Daniel S. Park, and Allen W. Wang of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, under the supervision of Jennifer Urban.
For more information see http://www.publicknowledge.org/cra/
