Show Business Pleads to Keep Digital Law.
By Jonathan Krim.
Washington Post Thursday, May 13, 2004; Page E04.
House Bill Could Loosen Restrictions on Copying CDs, DVDs for Personal Use.
At a hearing on a House bill that would
loosen some of the restriction on copying imposed by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) representatives of the
MPAA and RIAA clashed with proponents of the bill.
From the article:
Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.), one of the bill’s co-sponsors, waved his Apple iPod for committee members to see and said he failed to grasp when he voted for the DMCA in 1998 that it would restrict his rights to make use of music he had legally purchased.
“We went way overboard,” he said. “It needs to be corrected.”
“It’s just like a fork,” said Gary J. Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association, many of whose members make products that allow digital copying, mixing and editing. “You can eat with it, and you can use it to kill someone.” Banning the fork, he said, makes no sense.
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