Text of Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/ Politech archive on the CBDTPA: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cbdtpa -Declan --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52145,00.html White House Cool to Hollings' Act By Declan McCullagh 2:00 a.m. April 27, 2002 PDT WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is lukewarm on a plan to embed copy-protection technology in software and consumer electronics. James Rogan, the Commerce Department's undersecretary for intellectual property, has expressed mild skepticism about a bill championed by Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina). "Before Congress rushes into the imposition of a legislative solution," Rogan said, "I hope its members will grant more time for the free market to find its own middle ground." Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act is the entertainment industry's boldest attempt yet to compel the computer industry to adopt software and hardware standards aimed at reducing illicit copying. It requires that "any hardware or software" that could be used to copy digital content include anti-piracy technologies. Rogan, who advises President Bush on copyright matters and runs the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is a big fan of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) -- a controversial law that's currently the subject of at least three lawsuits. At a conference on Thursday, Rogan said: "The DMCA carefully balances the interests of all stakeholders to ensure that content owners would enjoy the protection they need to put their works on the Internet and to ensure that appropriate fair use is maintained for consumers, scientists and educators." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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