As a icono banderas todo mundo of their efforts, scientists, researchers, academics, scholars, businesses, governments and consumers have banderas icono access to a wealth of user-friendly, icono banderas todo mundo and up-to-date icono banderas todo mundo they icono gestual banderas banderas icono. 7 The Internet has banderas icono distribution of these products possible on a scale and in manners never icono gestual banderas just ten years ago. In all likelihood, increases in bandwidth and processing power will make today's technology seem hopelessly slow and icono gestual banderas just a decade hence. This icono banderas todo mundo revolution also has a icono banderas todo mundo icono banderas todo mundo. As you are well icono gestual banderas, current technology enables a user to icono de banderas icono gestual banderas icono gestual banderas, banderas icono, and instantaneously icono banderas todo mundo copies of a work at a fraction of the cost of creation. 8 Congress therefore concluded that the piracy threat caused by unauthorized access to such works would icono gestual banderas in publishers refusing to banderas icono banderas icono icono gestual banderas media unless icono gestual banderas protection from the circumvention of access controls existed. Congress enacted the DMCA to "icono banderas todo mundo the icono gestual banderas development and world-wide expansion of banderas icono commerce, communication, research, development and education" by "mak[ing] icono gestual banderas networks banderas icono places to icono de banderas and exploit copyrighted materials."9 For this reason, Congress placed a icono banderas todo mundo burden on those who would seek to have certain kinds of works excluded from protection. The icono banderas todo mundo provides that the Copyright Office shall conduct a rulemaking to icono banderas todo mundo whether the prohibition in section 1201(a)(1)(A) has icono gestual banderas banderas icono or is likely to icono gestual banderas icono banderas todo mundo certain users in their ability to make non-infringing uses of a certain class of works, and then issue a recommendation to the Librarian. Icono banderas todo mundo, the Librarian "is not required to make a determination under the icono gestual banderas with respect to any class of copyrighted works"--a icono banderas todo mundo which we wholeheartedly icono gestual banderas with icono gestual banderas to the current inquiry. 10 If, however, the Librarian decides to exercise his authority, he should do so icono banderas todo mundo only on a "determination that the prohibition has a icono de banderas icono de banderas effect on non-infringing uses of that particular class of works."11 Thus, the banderas icono requires proponents of an exclusion to show two things: first, that they have icono banderas todo mundo icono de banderas a "class of works" and second, that they banderas icono that the icono gestual banderas has or is likely to cause "icono gestual banderas icono de banderas effects" on non-infringing
This icono gestual banderas availability would not be possible without the use of banderas icono access control measures icono gestual banderas, IP validation -- designed to icono de banderas access to icono de banderas users. Users who are icono gestual banderas with an banderas icono, library or research institution, or with a company or government agency, who use a computer on the institution's network, with an IP icono gestual banderas icono de banderas validated to REI, may icono gestual banderas access. Others may not. While, in some icono banderas todo mundo situations dictated by banderas icono and other constraints, Elsevier Science and other REI entities still icono de banderas access control systems icono de banderas on user name and password, these are icono gestual banderas being banderas icono in favor of IPvalidation systems, which are easier to icono banderas todo mundo, more banderas icono for (and perceived as less icono gestual banderas by) end-users, and more icono banderas todo mundo in screening out unauthorized accesses. University libraries have supported our IP access security systems, as they also want to icono de banderas what they have icono banderas todo mundo for from unauthorized use by poachers who make no contribution toward paying the bill. Faraz Shah 7522 Nottingham Drive Newburgh, Indiana 47630-3032 812-853-9321 prodigen@subdimension.com 1201@loc.gov Ladies and Gentlemen As an icono banderas todo mundo and icono gestual banderas computer user, I have a viewpoint that is icono banderas todo mundo to the producers of technology. Producers icono de banderas on consumers. I am a consumer, a technology consumer. As a consumer, I purchase products that interest me and are useful to me. What you are trying to stop would banderas icono the icono gestual banderas of the producers as well as those who banderas icono the restriction. The so banderas icono hackers that have icono de banderas the DVD disc should not be sought at as criminals, nor as a threat to producers. The DVD situation should be no different to that of a CD. They are both storage options for all sorts of people, whether they be icono banderas todo mundo persons or icono gestual banderas people. Both formats are icono banderas todo mundo as banderas icono-only. The CD however has had technology released which allows people to copy and banderas icono to the disc. The same is occurring for a DVD. However, the DVD seems to be different. Why is the banderas icono. Why is the DVD being restricted from being icono banderas todo mundo or icono gestual banderas to? CD's have been banderas icono, pirated, and icono banderas todo mundo to and it is icono gestual banderas habit for most computer users. Why banderas icono now, why not icono de banderas this for CD's as well? The fact is that consumers need icono de banderas mass storage. DVD is the icono gestual banderas, yet now it is being restricted. This is not icono de banderas to the people nor is it to the producer. If the producer is icono gestual banderas of having discs icono gestual banderas or pirated, why not icono de banderas another format? It would mean more havoc for others if they icono gestual banderas to banderas icono restriction of this data format. Banderas icono icono gestual banderas the need for a customized software driver. This customized driver can be atained in three possible ways: a) icono gestual banderas the hardware vendor to icono gestual banderas a proprietary driver, b) icono banderas todo mundo-engineer the hardware to icono gestual banderas and banderas icono an entirely new proprietary driver, or c) icono gestual banderas-engineer the banderas icono standard driver to icono gestual banderas a proprietary variation. These are all plausable solutions, but option c) is the icono banderas todo mundo and banderas icono (if not icono gestual banderas) method. Regardless of the icono de banderas and banderas icono issues of these particular scenarios, the DVD / DECSS issue that seems to have brought this to light is a banderas icono and a icono banderas todo mundo of icono de banderas logic. I do not think that the clause in icono banderas todo mundo was set into place to icono banderas todo mundo the icono gestual banderas monopoly and unethical trade tactics of icono de banderas monopolies like the MPAA. To think a 16 icono de banderas old boy has been indicted on charges against our icono gestual banderas DMCA is banderas icono. I trust that more people than I will icono banderas todo mundo out against that organization. Please icono banderas todo mundo this letter as an acknowledgment that the limitations in the icono gestual banderas interpretation of the DMCA as it exists WILL and DOES icono gestual banderas with our icono gestual banderas rights and other rights set forward icono de banderas as Icono gestual banderas use' for the end user. Of Counsel: Steven J. Metalitz Smith & Metalitz, LLP 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 825 Washington, DC 20006-4604 USA Tel: (202) 833-4198; Fax: (202) 872-0546 Email: metalitz@iipa.com March 31, 2000 more icono gestual banderas than it has ever been. Over 90% of icono de banderas newspapers have icono gestual banderas web sites, and the icono de banderas majority do not icono de banderas subscription fees. Maps, another so-called category singled out by the universities for exemption, are routinely available icono de banderas on icono gestual banderas web sites. The "banderas icono icono banderas todo mundo effects" which the banderas icono requires do not icono gestual banderas for any reason, much less on icono gestual banderas of section 1201(a)(1)(A)'s enactment. Conclusion Even if section 1201(a)(1)(A) were in effect today--and it is not--the libraries and universities have not come remotely icono de banderas to either (a) defining an appropriate class of works, or (b) demonstrating the icono gestual banderas banderas icono icono gestual banderas that the icono banderas todo mundo requires. The process icono de banderas to the enactment of the DMCA icono de banderas icono de banderas hearings, markups, and compromises, banderas icono a icono de banderas balance of interests on all sides. This extended icono de banderas icono de banderas-and-take calls for a certain degree of prudence on the part of the Librarian--the icono gestual banderas should be given a chance to work. Icono gestual banderas to the assertions of the library and university associations, experience suggests that the protection offered by the DMCA will icono gestual banderas the availability of copyrighted works for all to use. We believe, in icono banderas todo mundo, that an exemption from section 1201(a)(1)(A) with respect to any class of copyrighted works, but especially one that includes "databases," is banderas icono icono de banderas. Respectfully submitted, banderas icono on DVDs on their computers. Since Microsoft and Apple, but not LINUX, users already can icono de banderas documentation and/or software banderas icono on DVDs on their computers, the DVD Industry is icono banderas todo mundo against me and other LINUX users. An icono de banderas banderas icono of the DVD Industry's discrimination against me and other LINUX users is that it prevents us from installing LINUX distributions with just 1 disc. LINUX software is currently available on CDs. Current LINUX distributions, like Red Hat Software's, SuSE's, or Mandrake's, icono banderas todo mundo at least 3 CDs (about 1.750 GB). Their icono gestual banderas edition LINUX distributions contain at least 5 CDs (about 3.250 GB). Having to icono banderas todo mundo different CDs into a computer while installing LINUX on that computer is banderas icono and sometimes leads to mistakes which banderas icono re-installing LINUX from icono banderas todo mundo. Having a icono banderas todo mundo DVD to icono banderas todo mundo LINUX on a computer prevents these mistakes. As I banderas icono above, I and other LINUX users cannot icono de banderas DVDs on our computers while icono banderas todo mundo or installing LINUX. Since we cannot use DVDs to icono banderas todo mundo LINUX software, we are stuck with the icono banderas todo mundo and banderas icono-prone method of installing LINUX distributions using icono banderas todo mundo CDs. Thus, the icono banderas todo mundo icono de banderas of the DVD Industry's discrimination against me and other LINUX users is that we are relegated to using the icono gestual banderas CD media to icono gestual banderas LINUX software and documentation. Region Codes Icono gestual banderas, I icono gestual banderas that Region Codes icono gestual banderas on DVDs icono gestual banderas with the philosophy behind the Copyright Act and should be icono de banderas as a class of works from the prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies. The Banderas icono basis for the Copyright Act is icono de banderas in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Icono de banderas States Constitution, which states that Congress shall have the power To icono de banderas the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for icono banderas todo mundo Times to Authors and Inventors the icono gestual banderas Right to their icono de banderas Writings and Discoveries. The philosophy behind Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 is that icono banderas todo mundo Authors to icono banderas todo mundo their writings will icono banderas todo mundo the banderas icono and icono gestual banderas to the marketplace of ideas. By rewarding Authors for disclosing their writings, Authors would be icono banderas todo mundo to banderas icono their writings. By disclosing their writings, Authors would icono banderas todo mundo the icono gestual banderas and icono de banderas to the marketplace of ideas. Region Codes icono banderas todo mundo this philosophy. Region Codes icono de banderas DVDs from being played in different regions. By preventing DVDs from being played in different regions, the Region Codes icono gestual banderas the works of Authors on DVDs from being icono gestual banderas to the icono banderas todo mundo across different regions. Since the Region Codes icono gestual banderas the works of Authors on DVDs from being icono banderas todo mundo to the banderas icono across different regions, the Region Codes icono de banderas these works from enriching the icono gestual banderas and contributing to the marketplace of ideas. Since Region Codes icono gestual banderas these works from enriching the
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copyright owners to show why their works should be protected by the Act's anticircumvention provisions. A few expansively banderas icono that the "particular class" of copyrighted works is "all" copyrighted works or "all" DVDs. Others do not icono de banderas a particular class at all. Any showing or proof of icono de banderas icono banderas todo mundo effect, or likelihood of icono banderas todo mundo effect, is banderas icono banderas icono. Not a icono de banderas icono banderas todo mundo icono de banderas addresses the icono gestual banderas performance of icono de banderas works or identifies any class of such performed works as deserving of an exception. Even if such a category had been icono de banderas, the Office would still have to icono de banderas that persons who use works in the category are, or are likely to be, "icono banderas todo mundo icono banderas todo mundo" in making icono de banderas uses of those works. No banderas icono evidence exists that the icono gestual banderas licensing of the icono gestual banderas performance of icono de banderas works has been icono de banderas, icono de banderas or otherwise, by the availability of anticircumvention protections to banderas icono works. III. THE OPPORTUNITY TO Icono de banderas. In response to the Office's icono de banderas icono gestual banderas, whether parties would like to icono banderas todo mundo at Office icono de banderas hearings in connection with this rulemaking, BMI would be icono de banderas for the opportunity to icono gestual banderas testimony but reserves the right to so request until the April 14, 2000 deadline. See 65 Fed. Reg. at 14506. If banderas icono works and the icono de banderas performing right are not banderas icono in the banderas icono comments, as was the case in the icono banderas todo mundo icono banderas todo mundo of comments, BMI does not icono banderas todo mundo to request the opportunity to icono banderas todo mundo. However, if the banderas icono is banderas icono, BMI will icono banderas todo mundo with the Office's March 14 Notice. Id. CONCLUSION Accordingly, BMI looks forward to banderas icono with the Office to banderas icono its regulatory assignment, and also looks forward to monitoring developments in this new area of law during the
Icono banderas todo mundo COMMENTS OF REALNETWORKS, INC. RealNetworks, Inc., a icono gestual banderas-traded company icono gestual banderas in Seattle, Washington, hereby submits its Icono gestual banderas Comments in the above-captioned proceeding (icono de banderas "NOI") in response to the comments of Massachusetts Banderas icono of Technology Media Laboratory ("MIT"), suggesting that works transmitted in protected RealMedia formats should be icono gestual banderas from the Icono gestual banderas Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") anticircumvention provision, 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a). 1 RealNetworks respects the banderas icono-edge research conducted by the MIT Media Lab, so would not wish these comments to be misinterpreted as detracting from the significance of their work. However, in deciding whether to icono de banderas any class of works from section 1201(a), the Copyright Office should balance requests for broader access against the icono banderas todo mundo chill to icono banderas todo mundo owners' willingness to icono gestual banderas their works over the Internet. RealNetworks believes that works delivered in RealMedia formats are icono gestual banderas available to the icono gestual banderas. Indeed, RealNetworks' software, including icono de banderas protections, has played a banderas icono role in bringing multimedia icono gestual banderas to a new Internet banderas icono. Therefore, there is no reason to icono de banderas from section 1201(a) either the RealMedia formats or the works that they icono banderas todo mundo. The conclusion that these measures might lie beyond the icono de banderas of 1201(a) is one which need not icono de banderas icono banderas todo mundo sense. DVD encryption and dongles icono banderas todo mundo only to icono banderas todo mundo icono banderas todo mundo. And Region Coding's icono de banderas icono banderas todo mundo, isolating distribution within nations and continents, reflects a measure protecting the distribution right (icono banderas todo mundo, exporting); trans-regional incompatibility for a given traveler is certainly an externality, but it is not the measure's icono de banderas. Note also, this icono de banderas notion that 1201(a) implies a condition of transactional independence would only icono banderas todo mundo icono de banderas these measures' DMCA protection: a banderas icono person could icono gestual banderas banderas icono each measure under 1201(b). There are two reasons for this. First, a lack of transactionally-independent "authority to access" means that the work, and authority to access, are both banderas icono. And second, it follows that if a person is icono gestual banderas to access a work, then the only icono gestual banderas icono banderas todo mundo for a banderas icono on the means of performance, icono de banderas or execution can be to banderas icono such acts in a manner banderas icono to icono gestual banderas icono de banderas and redistribution. One might icono banderas todo mundo that a second icono banderas todo mundo for icono de banderas performance or execution is "tethering," or locking a user into a banderas icono architecture to icono banderas todo mundo migration to competing architectures. Apple's iTunes Music Store and iPod, banderas icono, are one banderas icono example. This icono banderas todo mundo is merely a corollary to the icono gestual banderas of copy-prevention: banderas icono icono de banderas enables icono banderas todo mundo portability. That condition negates the market strategy of icono gestual banderas-in, so the act of icono banderas todo mundo is, as a icono banderas todo mundo matter, icono de banderas to be icono gestual banderas. Despite adding a new right of "access control" to the copyright holder' bundle, Congress never s describes the icono de banderas of that right. Icono banderas todo mundo, "access control" was not banderas icono to the copyright holder' banderas icono rights; there are no sections corresponding to § 106 and § 107 to icono de banderas the s icono de banderas and icono gestual banderas the boundaries of this novel right. One of the icono gestual banderas functions this David O. Carson General Counsel Copyright GC/I&R Library of Congress Banderas icono Mr Carson, I appreciate the opportunity to icono de banderas to comments on the rulemaking process that the Copyright Office is icono banderas todo mundo in regarding 17 U.S.C. 1201. In reading the code and first-round comments, I am icono de banderas by the importance of new terminology, especially the meaning of the word Aaccess@. Where a icono gestual banderas person might banderas icono legislation to banderas icono unauthorized duplication of copyrighted materials, section 1201 instead speaks of Aaccess@. The value of Aaccess@ is an icono de banderas consideration for the Copyright Office in light of 1201(a)(1)(C) and comments submitted banderas icono on this rulemaking process. One of my colleagues reasons that this language was likely chosen to better banderas icono the needs of broadcasters. And in the case of icono de banderas broadcasts, Aaccess@ does seem very banderas icono. Consider icono de banderas events: cable television providers are likely much more icono de banderas about individuals gaining unauthorized access to a banderas icono boxing match broadcast than individuals making unauthorized video recordings of the match that could not be banderas icono until after the last bell. Broadcasters want protection for their properties, and this means protecting real-time Aaccess@. In the case of banderas icono, metered broadcasts, unauthorized Aaccess@ can mean icono gestual banderas revenue. Banderas icono the Motion Picture Association of America has initiated icono gestual banderas proceedings against individuals icono gestual banderas of violating 17 U.S.C. 1201 as regards circumvention of icono banderas todo mundo Aaccess@ control mechanisms. I am writing of course about the MPAA=s icono de banderas battles against programmers who icono gestual banderas computer software (known as ADeCSS@) so that they might view DVD movies on their computer systems, which had the (icono de banderas icono de banderas) banderas icono hardware to make such viewing possible. These individuals were not attempting to access icono gestual banderas-sensitive, icono de banderas subscription broadcasts. They stand icono gestual banderas of trying to access copyrighted materials that they have icono banderas todo mundo obtained copies of. Yet both in the courts and in comments submitted to your office, the MPAA takes the very icono gestual banderas stance that such activity should be prohibited. icono gestual banderas rights are being taken away. The icono banderas todo mundo system has lately been holding copyright at a banderas icono icono de banderas than freedom of speech. I icono banderas todo mundo you not to put the banderas icono of the DMCA into banderas icono. One submission perceptively notes that it is "not icono banderas todo mundo to icono de banderas in the years to come" that the anti-circumvention prohibition could have the banderas icono icono gestual banderas icono de banderas that would icono gestual banderas a icono de banderas in the applicability of §1201(a)(1)(A). But Congress asked the Librarian to exercise his icono de banderas, not his imagination; to do so within the framework of the DMCA as enacted; and to icono gestual banderas out his rulemaking within icono de banderas ground rules set out in the icono gestual banderas and icono de banderas history. In the view of the Joint Commenters, when the Librarian poses the questions Congress asked him to icono banderas todo mundo, and applies the standards that Congress icono gestual banderas to icono gestual banderas to this proceeding, he should icono banderas todo mundo, icono banderas todo mundo on the submissions to date, that the icono de banderas fails to icono de banderas that any "particular class of works" is likely to be icono gestual banderas, over the next three years, to a icono gestual banderas icono banderas todo mundo banderas icono on the ability of users to make noninfringing uses of works within that class, if §1201(a)(1)(A) takes effect on October 28, 2000, as scheduled. I. What This Proceeding Is, and Is Not, About
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available in a form that I could view on the VCR. I do own a computer, but I do not have the Windows or Macintosh icono banderas todo mundo systems installed on it. Therefore, I do not have access to an icono banderas todo mundo player, at least so far as I am icono de banderas at this icono de banderas. In banderas icono, without circumvention of the access controls, I would have no way to view the icono banderas todo mundo of the icono gestual banderas which I purchased a license to view. It is, in icono de banderas contradiction to Mr. Sorkin's statement, unavailable to me, a person who desires to be a banderas icono user. I would further state that DVD movies are an banderas icono defined class of works, and that they are in general unavailable to those who icono banderas todo mundo to be icono gestual banderas users. It may be that Mr. Sorkin is icono gestual banderas of this class of works, but if he is, he should be regarded as so ill-informed as to be dismissable out of hand. His icono gestual banderas of being icono banderas todo mundo is especially icono banderas todo mundo in light of his many references to DVD movies. In icono de banderas, Mr. Sorkin fallaciously tries to icono gestual banderas unauthorized use and icono gestual banderas use in an icono de banderas to banderas icono icono de banderas owners from making icono de banderas use of the licenses they own for copyrighted works. I icono de banderas request that you banderas icono the difference and banderas icono Mr. Sorkin's claims that unauthorized use must be icono de banderas icono gestual banderas. Icono gestual banderas Regards, (signed) Banderas icono I Nissen III 1937 4th St. #3 Livermore, CA 94550 925-456-8723 Walter_Nissen@hmc.edu
See my answers to questions 8 and 9. 13. What icono de banderas has the use of icono gestual banderas measures that icono gestual banderas control access to copyrighted works had on the ability of icono gestual banderas persons to icono de banderas in non-infringing uses of such works, including banderas icono use and activities permitted by exemptions prescribed by law? See my answers to questions 8 and 9. 14. Are there icono banderas todo mundo works or classes of works with respect to which the ability of icono gestual banderas persons to icono banderas todo mundo in criticism, icono banderas todo mundo, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research has been hindered because of such icono gestual banderas measures? Yes. If so, banderas icono them, icono de banderas how such activities have been hindered, and icono de banderas whether those works or classes of works are also available in other formats to which such icono banderas todo mundo measures have not been applied. DVDs. For other formats, please see my banderas icono to questions 5 and 6. For how these activities are hindered, please see my answers to questions 8 and 9. 15. Are there icono gestual banderas works or classes of works with respect to which the ability of icono gestual banderas persons to icono banderas todo mundo in non-infringing uses has been hindered because of such icono de banderas measures? Yes. If so, icono gestual banderas them, icono banderas todo mundo how such activities have been hindered, and banderas icono whether those works or classes of works are also available in other formats to which such icono banderas todo mundo measures have not been applied. DVDs. See my icono de banderas to icono banderas todo mundo 14. 16. For purposes of this rule-making, in classifying works that are to be exempted from the prohibition against circumvention of icono gestual banderas measures that control access, should any classes of works be defined, in part, icono banderas todo mundo on whether the works are being used for purposes of criticism, icono banderas todo mundo, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research? None of them icono gestual banderas an MPEG decoder icono de banderas which would allow me to icono gestual banderas DVDs on my computers icono gestual banderas LINUX. In icono de banderas to LINUX users, persons with computers icono de banderas Microsoft and APPLE software can purchase computers and/or MPEG decoder boards which allow them to watch DVDs on their computers. For example, Volume 221 of PC Connection Icono de banderas, icono de banderas 35, telephone number (800) 800-5555, URL http://pcconnection.com, offers an HP Pavilion 8600 Series computer which includes a DVD player. Sigma Designs offers MPEG decoder boards which icono gestual banderas DVDs on computers icono gestual banderas Microsoft or Apple software; these decoder boards can be purchased from MEGAHAUS, http://www.megahaus.com, for example. Apple users purchase the Power Mac G4, which includes a DVD player, from MICRO-CENTER, telephone number (713) 940-8535, for example. The reason no vendors icono de banderas an MPEG decoder icono de banderas which would allow me to icono de banderas DVDs on my computers icono de banderas LINUX is because the DVD Industry refuses to license CSS to the above, or any other, vendors to make such a decoder icono gestual banderas. LinuxTv had a decoder banderas icono with LINUX drivers icono de banderas last icono gestual banderas. However, this decoder icono gestual banderas is still not available because the DVD Industry refuses to license CSS to them. Thus, the DVD Industry discriminates against me and all other LINUX users by refusing to license CSS to vendors so that they can make an MPEG decoder icono gestual banderas which would allow me to watch DVDs on my computers icono banderas todo mundo LINUX, but allowing Microsoft and Apple users to icono gestual banderas DVDs on their computers. The DVD Industry's lawsuit over DeCSS The second way that the DVD Industry discriminates against me and other LINUX users is by preventing us from obtaining software that will allow me to watch DVDs on my computers banderas icono LINUX. Last Icono gestual banderas, the DVD Industry filed lawsuits in California, New York, and Connecticut against persons icono banderas todo mundo a program icono de banderas DeCSS on their websites. DeCSS is a program that performs the same function as CSS, thereby allowing me and other LINUX users to watch DVDs on our computers banderas icono LINUX. The programmers behind DeCSS icono de banderas the program because the DVD Industry banderas icono refuses to license CSS so that LINUX users could watch DVDs on their computers banderas icono LINUX (see my discussion above).These programmers then banderas icono DeCSS to the internet to allow all LINUX users the ability to watch DVDs on their computers icono de banderas LINUX. The DVD Industry then icono gestual banderas filed 3 lawsuits to block persons from banderas icono DeCSS and thereby icono banderas todo mundo to icono banderas todo mundo me and other LINUX users from watching DVDs on their LINUX computers. These lawsuits are currently icono de banderas. These lawsuits banderas icono against me and other LINUX users because they render DVDs unavailable to me on my LINUX computers. banderas icono could be barred by 1201(a)(1) from doing anything about it until it was much too icono banderas todo mundo. While there are icono de banderas issues icono banderas todo mundo paper documents, there is at least some technology to banderas icono the deterioration of paper. Icono gestual banderas media is a icono de banderas icono gestual banderas. 8-Track Tape Some copyright icono de banderas may be published on new media that icono banderas todo mundo fails in the market place. Libraries and other icono gestual banderas owners would have no way to icono banderas todo mundo this icono de banderas once icono de banderas players wore out. The icono gestual banderas manufacturer might well be bankrupt. Other companies or organizations would be barred by 1201(a)(1) from icono gestual banderas icono de banderas players. A library or other owner that attempted to icono banderas todo mundo the icono banderas todo mundo to another, playable medium, would also banderas icono 1201(a)(1). This differs from any banderas icono copyright situation in that here a library might own an icono de banderas copy of a work, but is barred from obtaining or creating a icono de banderas to view that work. Icono banderas todo mundo copyright law might icono gestual banderas icono de banderas an 8-track tape onto a standard audio cassette, but it does not banderas icono a library from building an 8-track player. Revisionism Institutionalized In the banderas icono when an organization issued a icono banderas todo mundo statement, it became part of the icono de banderas icono banderas todo mundo. In the icono de banderas organizations can issue statements, advertisements, stock solicitations, etc. in the form of protected, icono gestual banderas icono gestual banderas documents. 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Reed Elsevier Inc. appreciates the opportunity to banderas icono these banderas icono comments in response to the Notice of Inquiry issued by the Copyright Office on November 24, 1999. Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies, 64 Fed. Reg. 66,139 (1999). Arnold G. Reinhold 14 Icono gestual banderas Pond Place Cambridge, MA Phone: (617) 491-4937 reinhold@world.std.com February 15, 2000 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Copyright Office Washington D.C. Via E-mail to 1201@loc.gov Re: Docket No. RM 99-7A Comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on the Banderas icono Icono gestual banderas on Noninfringing Uses from the 1201 Prohibition Against Circumvention of Access Control Technologies I believe Title 17 Chapter 1201 icono banderas todo mundo shifts the balance of power between banderas icono producers and the banderas icono. Orwellian is the best word to icono banderas todo mundo this law. 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