Declan McCullagh, Copyright bill may severely limit rights, ZDNet News, July 11. On the Berman-Coble bill and the ways in which it would restrict fair-use rights. McCullagh is undoubtedly right that one of its purposes is to derail Rick Boucher's bill, which would restore fair-use rights already revoked by the DMCA. Oddly, all the co-sponsors of the new bill have issued disclaimers that they don't necessarily endorse it. In Howard Berman's case, the reason is that he's even more radically opposed to fair-use rights than his bill. For example, the bill allows webcasters to make temporary cached or buffered copies, which are necessary parts of the content streaming process. Berman opposes the exemption for buffered copies.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/12/2002 03:18:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
