Re: [CNI-COPYRIGHT] State Legislation Pending That Will ExceedFederal Copyright Laws and Endanger Research

From: Carol Simpson <Carol_Simpson[_at_]unt.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 23:42:35 -0500

Ham Radio operators have noted that the bills introduced in Texas and one other state (I am away from home as I post this) would make having a firewall illegal since the technology described includes typical address tagging of network packets. Sometimes legislators have no idea how far reaching technical wording can be.

Carol Simpson
Univ of North Texas
W2JMB >>> jwne[_at_]astro.ocis.temple.edu 04/02/03 09:39AM >>>

Highly restrictive copyright and intellectual property legislation are the meat and potatoes of protecting in a great range of ways for extremely
long periods of time the lucrative products and productions media and entertainment businesses. The latest front is corporation backed introduction of highly restrictive copyright legislation by a few state
legislatures.

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Library Groups Say Sweeping State Copyright Laws Could Stifle Teaching

and
Research
By ANDREA L. FOSTER
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Academic-library groups are denouncing copyright-protection bills that legislatures in several states are considering. The groups say that the
bills, if they became law, could erode fair-use rights even more than the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the controversial federal law that makes
it illegal to bypass technologies designed to protect digital works.

The state bills are based on model legislation pushed by the Motion Picture Association of America and cable operators and programmers. The
legislation would amend state telecommunications and cable-security laws
to prevent digital piracy. But the bills' wording is so sweeping that it
could become illegal to view or copy radio, television, or Internet material without communications providers' express permission, says Jonathan Band, a Washington lawyer who represents the Association of Research Libraries, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the American Library Association.

Under the model legislation, theft of a communications service could be
defined as encompassing a broad range of activities, including "the receipt, interception, disruption, and transmission" of broadcast works,
says Mr. Band.

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The complete article may be read at the URL Above.

There are also links at the bottom of this article to related articles published by The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Background articles from The Chronicle:
Supreme Court Upholds Copyright Law Fought by Some Scholars
(1/24/2003)

College Groups Challenge Copyright Office on Digital-Copyright Law
(1/10/2003)

Libraries Criticize Federal Report on Digital-Copyright Law
(9/14/2001)

Scholars and Libraries Want Permission to Copy Electronic Materials
(12/15/2000)

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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584

jwne[_at_]astro.temple.edu

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