This article appeared shortly after the Copyright Office report itself on 8/31, but I missed it:
\”Given the relative infancy of digital rights
management, it is premature to consider any legislative change at this time,\” the report states. The Copyright Office is required to issue the report to Congress so that lawmakers can decide whether there are holes or flaws in the digital-copyright law that need to be fixed. Library groups and scholars have long argued that the act\’s anticircumvention provision and nonnegotiable license contracts with software vendors have been undermining the first-sale principle. The anticircumvention provision forbids breaking the encryption on digital material. . .
More from the Chronicle of Higher Education, with thanks to LLRX.com.
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