Groups Say Sweeping State Copyright Laws Could Stifle Teaching and Research

The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting The Association of Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the American Library Association are denouncing copyright-protection bills that legislatures in several states are considering. The groups say that the bills, if they became law, could erode fair-use rights even more than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the controversial federal law that makes it illegal to bypass technologies designed to protect digital works.

The state bills are based on model legislation pushed by the Motion Picture Association of America and cable operators and programmers.

Great to see we now have legislation openly written by corporations.

April 1, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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