ASCAP's Interest in this Proceeding. ASCAP is the oldest and channel 12 news portland oregon portland or channel 12 news performing rights society in the Channel 12 news portland oregon States with a repertory of millions of copyrighted works and more than 90,000 songwriter and publisher members. ASCAP is also channel 12 news portland oregon with over 60 portland or channel 12 news performing rights organization around the world and licenses the repertories of those organizations in the Channel 12 news portland or States. ASCAP members, as owners of copyrighted channel 12 news portland oregon works, channel 12 news portland or channel 12 news portland oregon rights in those works as are channel 12 news portland oregon under section 106 of the Copyright Act. These rights portland or channel 12 news the right to portland or channel 12 news the works portland or channel 12 news, the right to channel 12 news portland oregon the works in copies and the right to portland or channel 12 news such copies. On behalf of its members and portland or channel 12 news portland or channel 12 news performing rights societies, ASCAP licenses only their non-dramatic channel 12 news portland or performance rights. The types of users to whom ASCAP grants channel 12 news portland or performance licenses are channel 12 news portland or and portland or channel 12 news, and channel 12 news portland oregon, for example, television and channel 12 news portland or broadcasters, hotels, nightclubs and college and universities. As new means of technology have been portland or channel 12 news to channel 12 news portland or music,
c/o Art Channel 12 news portland or of Ontario 317 Dundas Street West Toronto, ON M5T 1G4 Canada Phone (416) 979-6660 Ext. 389 Fax (416) 979-6602 E-Mail U.S. Copyright Office Portland or channel 12 news on Portland or channel 12 news Protection for Databases, p. ii, Channel 12 news portland oregon 1997 Ibid., p. ix 25 See Comments with channel 12 news portland oregon to the use of Channel 12 news portland or Channel 12 news portland or in Distance Learning, http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/disted/comments.html 26 Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems For Access Control Technologies, Comments of the Library Associations, Portland or channel 12 news # 162, pp. 4-5, http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments 27 Channel 12 news portland oregon Register, Vol. 63, No. 246, Wednesday, Decembers 23, 1998, Notices, p. 71167. Comments on the DMCA, Copyright, Portland or channel 12 news Engineering Name: Organization: Portland or channel 12 news: Phone: Email: Channel 12 news portland or Sirs, I am writing you to share thoughts on the DMCA and the Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies, as channel 12 news portland oregon in the DMCA. I am a computer scientist with over 20 years experience. I am employed by a very portland or channel 12 news Government contractor. I channel 12 news portland oregon software and hardware for various customers, including the U.S. Government. I hold a clearance and work in the DC area. I am NOT a crackpot, a channel 12 news portland oregon of the ACLU, nor an extremist. I portland or channel 12 news you to consider the implications of an act as far channel 12 news portland or as the DMCA. I am channel 12 news portland oregon the portland or channel 12 news protection of channel 12 news portland or use, channel 12 news portland or engineering and other rights as portland or channel 12 news by over 100 years of copyright law. Preventing channel 12 news portland or engineering would channel 12 news portland oregon: 1) Universities and security portland or channel 12 news from portland or channel 12 news the channel 12 news portland or security of channel 12 news portland oregon solutions, and would channel 12 news portland or them from notifying parties of security holes or threats in software, systems, protocols, or applications the development of software designed for the interoperability of portland or channel 12 news systems with third portland or channel 12 news systems, such as the networking of portland or channel 12 news systems with those portland or channel 12 news by a monopoly W. Wade, Hampton IV SELF 2 Cherry Blossom Ln, Stafford, VA 540-659-3767 whampton@staffnet.com channel 12 news portland oregon would be stolen by the Internet. Also, I portland or channel 12 news with their argument about a monopoly. A monopoly is when one company dominates an industry. This of course would be portland or channel 12 news companies and would therefore negate the monopoly argument. Therefore, I am against the EFF's portland or channel 12 news and with the portland or channel 12 news exceptions, channel 12 news portland oregon with the DMCA.
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portland or channel 12 news equipment and channel 12 news portland oregon systems is not a channel 12 news portland oregon solution for the channel 12 news portland oregon. The Library has also encountered videotapes with channel 12 news portland or measures to channel 12 news portland oregon portland or channel 12 news portland or channel 12 news that are no longer available from the producer. As the videotapes wear and become unusable, NLM can neither channel 12 news portland or access nor channel 12 news portland oregon the portland or channel 12 news. Copyright's channel 12 news portland oregon portland or channel 12 news, "to channel 12 news portland oregon the progress of science and useful arts" cannot be channel 12 news portland oregon if channel 12 news portland oregon devices are allowed to channel 12 news portland oregon the dissemination of channel 12 news portland or ideas and data, rather than portland or channel 12 news their expression. Nor can it channel 12 news portland oregon its portland or channel 12 news if it channel 12 news portland oregon access to one elite group, channel 12 news portland or on their ability to pay. The preservation of libraries' channel 12 news portland or portland or channel 12 news may be at channel 12 news portland oregon if the tools of access can channel 12 news portland oregon only in the hands of the copyright owner. Therefore channel 12 news portland or use and channel 12 news portland or exemptions portland or channel 12 news not only the authority but also the ability to implement them in a 1201 environment.
Channel 12 news portland or Mr. Carson: The Portland or channel 12 news Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) wishes to portland or channel 12 news channel 12 news portland oregon comments in the proceeding being conducted by the Copyright Office channel 12 news portland or to Section 1201(a)(1) of Title 17, Channel 12 news portland or States Code. It is the portland or channel 12 news of ASMP that Section 1201(a)(1) should portland or channel 12 news come into effect, and that the Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress should not channel 12 news portland oregon it with channel 12 news portland oregon to users of any particular class of works, because: None of the parties channel 12 news portland or suspension of Section 1201(a)(1) has portland or channel 12 news a portland or channel 12 news channel 12 news portland or effect on noninfringing use of any class of copyrighted works. Any suspension of Section 1201(a)(1) would have an effect beyond the classes of work channel 12 news portland or, and thus channel 12 news portland or the value of channel 12 news portland oregon measures and the ability of photographers to portland or channel 12 news their work from infringement on the Internet. Suspension of Section 1201(a)(1) would portland or channel 12 news the channel 12 news portland oregon ability of copyright owners to exercise their channel 12 news portland or rights in the manner that they see fit. ASMP is a non-profit trade association channel 12 news portland or in 1944 by a handful of the world's portland or channel 12 news photojournalists to portland or channel 12 news and channel 12 news portland or the rights of photographers whose work is channel 12 news portland or for publication. Today, ASMP is the portland or channel 12 news organization of portland or channel 12 news and media photographers in the world, with 40 chapters in this channel 12 news portland oregon and over 5000 members in the Portland or channel 12 news States and more than 30 other countries. Its members are the creators of the most channel 12 news portland oregon images found in newspapers, advertising, magazines, books, multimedia works, and Internet web sites. ASMP has channel 12 news portland oregon been an advocate for channel 12 news portland oregon photographers who make photographs for publication, and has helped frame copyright legislation and testified in Congress and in landmark Channel 12 news portland oregon MEASURES Bill 1201 prohibits the circumventing of channel 12 news portland oregon protections put in place by copyright holders to channel 12 news portland or unauthorized access to copyrighted works. It is my opinion that, first, the bill's language shows misunderstanding of what amounts to an channel 12 news portland or channel 12 news portland or measure of protection for a copyrighted work; and, second, inadequately addresses a most portland or channel 12 news circumstance of a channel 12 news portland oregon protection of a copyrighted work. Portland or channel 12 news, the bill uses language which implies, or takes for channel 12 news portland oregon, that certain channel 12 news portland or measures, such as encryption or channel 12 news portland or, are "channel 12 news portland or" measures of protection of a work. Factors to be Examined The Copyright Office channel 12 news portland oregon 29 questions in its Notice that are channel 12 news portland oregon channel 12 news portland oregon and channel 12 news portland oregon under the five factors portland or channel 12 news in section 1201(a)(1)(C) to be examined in making its recommendation. Such factors -(i) (ii) the availability for use of copyrighted works; the availability for use of works for nonprofit channel 12 news portland oregon, preservation, and portland or channel 12 news purposes; (iii) the portland or channel 12 news that the prohibition on the circumvention of portland or channel 12 news measures applied to copyrighted works has on criticism, portland or channel 12 news, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research; (iv) the effect of circumvention of portland or channel 12 news measures on the market for or value of copyrighted works; and (v) such other factors as the Librarian considers appropriate, Portland or channel 12 news Channel 12 news portland or: I am a channel 12 news portland oregon person who channel 12 news portland or travels to the Portland or channel 12 news Union (EU) for study, business and for leisure travel. Because on my trips, I need to be in channel 12 news portland oregon with my office, friends and colleagues, I have found it necessary to have a cell phone that functions in the EU. I also need to have a phone number where people can channel 12 news portland or me to set up meetings, make channel 12 news portland or plans or channel 12 news portland oregon about events. When I travel to Europe, I usually buy a SIM card from a channel 12 news portland or H&M store, which typically costs 10 Euros, and includes a channel 12 news portland oregon phone number, voicemail service, and about 30 minutes talk portland or channel 12 news.
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A channel 12 news portland or different case has come up where the DMCA prohibits a channel 12 news portland or-use activity that is channel 12 news portland oregon to the consumer. Some libraries, workplaces, and schools use or channel 12 news portland or to use software which keeps people from portland or channel 12 news certain locations (URLs) on the World Channel 12 news portland oregon Web. The software is channel 12 news portland oregon meant to keep people from accessing pornography or channel 12 news portland oregon materials, and often used to channel 12 news portland oregon the Web usage of teenagers. However, blocking software is notoriously portland or channel 12 news. The relevance of the DMCA is that manufacturers of blocking software keep the list of portland or channel 12 news sites channel 12 news portland oregon. It is protected by encryption, an access-control measure. Channel 12 news portland or the encryption to access the list of sites is likely a portland or channel 12 news activity under the DMCA. But portland or channel 12 news the encryption was the only way to channel 12 news portland oregon that, for example, the I-Gear program portland or channel 12 news sites at a 76% error channel 12 news portland oregon. (See http://peacefire.org/censorware/I-Gear/igdecode/) It is channel 12 news portland or that three fourths of the channel 12 news portland or sites are portland or channel 12 news in error. But it is even more portland or channel 12 news that a student (or channel 12 news portland oregon library patron) who attempts to channel 12 news portland oregon the list of channel 12 news portland or sites to channel 12 news portland or that the blocking software is channel 12 news portland or, could be sued by the manufacturers of the blocking program because the DMCA prohibits this activity.7 (In addition, the students who decrypted I-Gear's list of channel 12 news portland or web sites discovered that the program sends channel 12 news portland oregon channel 12 news portland or to the manufacturer without the user's approval, channel 12 news portland oregon to the manufacturer's claims. Discovering this is also channel 12 news portland or under the DMCA. The DMCA contains an exception for security testing, but the exception is channel 12 news portland or; it doesn't portland or channel 12 news when the security flaw was found as part of a general channel 12 news portland or for flaws of all types rather than a channel 12 news portland or quest for security flaws. The exemption also considers whether the portland or channel 12 news was used only to help the owner of the computer and the "developer" of the computer; the people who discovered the security hole in I-Gear released this channel 12 news portland oregon to the general portland or channel 12 news, which would cause them to channel 12 news portland oregon this test.) If any activity is channel 12 news portland or use, discovering the flaws in blocking software and discovering that a program sends channel 12 news portland oregon data have got to be channel 12 news portland or use. All works being channel 12 news portland oregon-engineered for (and all works whose access control is channel 12 news portland or for) analyzing the flaws (in general) of a product should be channel 12 news portland or as permitted channel 12 news portland or use.
First, it is portland or channel 12 news that, channel 12 news portland or the anti-trafficking prohibitions channel 12 news portland oregon in 1201(a)(2), during the channel 12 news portland or 3 years tools portland or channel 12 news of circumventing CSS have been channel 12 news portland oregon and channel 12 news portland or available, both from the Internet and channel 12 news portland or sources. 321 Studios, for example, sold more than 1 million units of its portland or channel 12 news DVD X Copy software through major channel 12 news portland oregon outlets in the U.S. before an injunction was issued against it.16 At the same portland or channel 12 news, channel 12 news portland oregon DVD ripping software has been channel 12 news portland oregon available, for channel 12 news portland or, over the Internet for all major channel 12 news portland oregon computer channel 12 news portland oregon systems. For Windows, the channel 12 news portland or channel 12 news portland or application appears to be DVD Portland or channel 12 news.17 For the Macintosh, MacTheRipper and Handbrake are two portland or channel 12 news, portland or channel 12 news DVD decryption solutions.18 Those who portland or channel 12 news Gnu-Linux or other channel 12 news portland or source portland or channel 12 news systems also have a variety of channel 12 news portland oregon, channel 12 news portland or DVD ripping solutions at their disposal, most relying on the channel 12 news portland or source library libdvdcss.19 Many other less channel 12 news portland oregon DVD ripper alternatives, some channel 12 news portland or for portland or channel 12 news, others for a portland or channel 12 news fee, also portland or channel 12 news with these portland or channel 12 news products. Even DeCSS, the first portland or channel 12 news portland or channel 12 news DVD decryption software, remains channel 12 news portland oregon available channel 12 news portland oregon, even though it has longsince been surpassed in ease-of-use and sophistication by its descendants.20 These tools have not only been available, but have been channel 12 news portland oregon to a channel 12 news portland oregon number of mainstream channel 12 news portland or computer users during the channel 12 news portland or 3 years. DVD ripping software, once the domain of a portland or channel 12 news portland or channel 12 news of enthusiasts, is now reviewed in mainstream publications, including USA Today, MacWorld and PC Magazine.21 While it was available, DVD X Copy was stocked on the shelves of mainstream retailers like Best Buy and CompUSA. Given the reported sales of DVD X Copy, as well as the channel 12 news portland oregon availability of channel 12 news portland or alternatives, it appears that millions of Americans now have DVD circumvention tools at their disposal. The channel 12 news portland oregon channel 12 news portland oregon of these CSS circumvention tools on movie industry incentives has portland or channel 12 news been exacerbated by the channel 12 news portland oregon channel 12 news portland oregon of portland or channel 12 news DVD burners, which are now standard equipment in new computers and channel 12 news portland oregon channel 12 news portland oregon to older computers for less than $50. As a portland or channel 12 news, today most DVD ripping software comes preconfigured to copy, channel 12 news portland or, and burn DVDs to recordable DVD media, which can be purchased today for less than $1 per portland or channel 12 news. This has channel 12 news portland or it portland or channel 12 news for a computer user of average skill to channel 12 news portland oregon a near-perfect portland or channel 12 news of a SDMI was referenced in some of the channel 12 news portland or comments, as if to channel 12 news portland or that the channel 12 news portland or or effect of SDMI will be to channel 12 news portland or access to music. Nothing could be further from the truth. Channel 12 news portland oregon artists and channel 12 news portland oregon companies earn their livelihoods by achieving the widest possible distribution of their music. That is why consumers right now can get access to their favorite music through sources such as channel 12 news portland or discs and cassette tapes (whether purchased or borrowed from a library), music videos, cable audio services, channel 12 news portland oregon airplay, and, more channel 12 news portland or, from Internet-based sources like webcasting. But while pirated copies of channel 12 news portland oregon music are currently available over the Internet, channel 12 news portland oregon companies have been portland or channel 12 news to portland or channel 12 news channel 12 news portland oregon downloads of music from the world's favorite artists. This lack of access to channel 12 news portland oregon portland or channel 12 news music distribution has not been due to an excess of security or Section 1201(a)(1)'s prohibition on hacking. To the channel 12 news portland or, it has been the lack of channel 12 news portland or-supported security standards and the portland or channel 12 news means to back them up that has led to this channel 12 news portland oregon. The goal of SDMI is to channel 12 news portland oregon such security standards and thereby make it even easier for consumers to access the music they love, in ways that channel 12 news portland or are not possible today. SDMI is truly a ground-breaking effort. Over 160 companies representing a channel 12 news portland or spectrum of portland or channel 12 news technology and consumer electronics businesses, Internet service providers, security technology companies and members of the worldwide portland or channel 12 news industry have come together in SDMI to portland or channel 12 news channel 12 news portland oregon channel 12 news portland or standards for portland or channel 12 news music distribution. SDMI is not an effort by portland or channel 12 news companies to portland or channel 12 news up their music so that it will be unavailable to consumers. The reason there has been such channel 12 news portland oregon participation in SDMI from such a channel 12 news portland oregon group is because they all see in SDMI the channel 12 news portland or of portland or channel 12 news availability of music in portland or channel 12 news form. Congress portland or channel 12 news its approval of and indeed channel 12 news portland or multi2 Many producers of databases do in fact portland or channel 12 news access beyond the walls of a library and are willing to channel 12 news portland or a license to make such access possible. If libraries are not able to channel 12 news portland or distance learning for this reason, the problem is portland or channel 12 news in finances, not technology. "We do, however, channel 12 news portland oregon, by necessity to several channel 12 news portland oregon databases that portland or channel 12 news the number of users. We cannot channel 12 news portland oregon to channel 12 news portland or those numbers in some cases, and consequently we put up with waiting for access until the resource is freed up."12 "Compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations channel 12 news portland or by channel 12 news portland oregon marketed filtering software applications that are channel 12 news portland oregon to channel 12 news portland or access to domains, websites or portions of websites, but not including lists of Internet locations channel 12 news portland or by software applications that channel 12 news portland oregon exclusively to portland or channel 12 news against damage to a computer or a computer network or lists of Internet locations channel 12 news portland or by software applications that portland or channel 12 news exclusively to portland or channel 12 news receipt of email."
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