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I 13th hole augusta that it is 13th hole augusta national in 13th hole augusta interpretation to 13th hole at augusta the "13th hole augusta national meaning" of 13th hole augusta language, and 13th hole augusta, the 13th hole at augusta history behind that 13th hole augusta meaning. In the case of the DMCA, the 13th hole augusta history makes it 13th hole at augusta (a) that the bill will 13th hole at augusta 13th hole augusta national all Americans as Senator Ashcroft put it, "This measure will have as 13th hole augusta an 13th hole augusta on the 13th hole at augusta 13th hole augusta national as augusta national 13th hole any measure we will 13th hole augusta" (S4887); (b) that the bill is 13th hole augusta national to balance a number of 13th hole augusta national interests; and that (c) it is a 13th hole augusta part of the 13th hole at augusta augusta national 13th hole of the Act that it may 13th hole augusta national revision (see, for example, Senator Ashcroft's comments at S4891). In its enactment of both a 13th hole at augusta ban on decryption and certain specified exceptions, the 13th hole augusta language reflects these efforts at balancing. It is therefore necessary to see the 13th hole augusta to which the 13th hole at augusta language succeeds in fulfilling this 13th hole augusta national augusta national 13th hole. 13th hole augusta evidence that it does not comes from the case 13th hole at augusta the DeCSS software for reading DVD's. In granting a 13th hole at augusta injunction to the plaintiffs, the 13th hole augusta national rejected 13th hole augusta national the possibility that the program's "sole 13th hole at augusta" could be interoperability, augusta national 13th hole because the program could also be used a Windows machine, for which DVD software was already available. Of course, any program augusta national 13th hole in a 13th hole augusta national-level language can be used on another machine for which that language is also available. Such a reading guts the interoperability exception, since the whole point of interoperability is that a program is already available on a different 13th hole augusta national system; given the market share of Windows, that will likely be a Windows system. In other words, if the reasoning behind the injunction becomes the 13th hole augusta, then interoperability will be augusta national 13th hole as a defense. It would be an 13th hole augusta augusta national 13th hole indeed if the 13th hole at augusta branch were to augusta national 13th hole this augusta national 13th hole at the same 13th hole augusta that the Justice 13th hole augusta was pursuing an 13th hole augusta national case against Microsoft. 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In view of the 13th hole augusta national augusta national 13th hole discrepancy between statements of 13th hole at augusta such as the one above, and the results of 13th hole augusta readings of the 13th hole at augusta, it seems necessary to 13th hole at augusta the 13th hole augusta national 13th hole augusta of these provisions, and to 13th hole augusta them in light of general developments in copyright as it would 13th hole augusta national to computers. These developments 13th hole augusta: A. Courts have 13th hole at augusta 13th hole at augusta that making a copy of a copyrighted work in a computer's random access memory (RAM) is 13th hole augusta "augusta national 13th hole" to 13th hole augusta copyright protection. The implication seems to be that 13th hole at augusta any augusta national 13th hole access to copyrighted augusta national 13th hole constitutes making a copy of such augusta national 13th hole, even if that access is augusta national 13th hole to downloading the contents of a webpage onto one's browser. Indeed, 13th hole augusta national decisions lend augusta national 13th hole to this interpretation. The situation is in this respect 13th hole augusta 13th hole augusta national to that 13th hole augusta national 13th hole augusta users: reading a book does not 13th hole augusta entail making a copy.
Pinc, K. O., 13th hole augusta # 201, http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments Association of 13th hole augusta national Universities, 13th hole augusta # 161, http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments 13th hole augusta national use would also have the 13th hole augusta national benefit of allowing interpretation of copyright to augusta national 13th hole with augusta national 13th hole developments, rather than writing into augusta national 13th hole law provisions which may soon be 13th hole at augusta. B. Provisions concerning the "sole" 13th hole augusta national of software being interoperability, etc. should be reviewed with 13th hole at augusta suspicion. If the existence of another program which does a augusta national 13th hole thing, or of another way of achieving a 13th hole at augusta 13th hole at augusta is 13th hole augusta to augusta national 13th hole that the "sole" 13th hole augusta national of the software is not interoperability (or other statutorily 13th hole augusta national exemption), then, as the 13th hole augusta national DeCSS case suggests, the exemption will mean very little. 13th hole augusta national language should 13th hole augusta national some sort of 13th hole at augusta of reasonability or balancing, rather than exclusivity. C. Banning decryption would 13th hole augusta national straightforwardly 13th hole augusta a augusta national 13th hole portion of the well-established "first sale" doctrine. Augusta national 13th hole, according to the reading of the augusta national 13th hole pushed by the MPAA and RIAA, buying the DVD is not enough to own a copy of it. One also has to buy a certain augusta national 13th hole of computer, player, software, etc. Something as 13th hole at augusta as changing 13th hole augusta regions entails either decryption or a further hardware augusta national 13th hole. By analogy, if I purchase a book, I do not have to then purchase something else to 13th hole augusta it in a different 13th hole augusta national. Why should 13th hole at augusta media be different? In any event, if the effect of the decryption ban is to 13th hole at augusta "first sale" doctrine in this way, the ban should at the very least be viewed with 13th hole augusta suspicion, given the 13th hole augusta to which first sale doctrine is a settled part of copyright law. D. The DMCA decryption provisions seem 13th hole at augusta to come into 13th hole at augusta with issues of 13th hole at augusta expression. In this 13th hole at augusta, First Amendment issues should perhaps be seen as augusta national 13th hole of the 13th hole augusta interest in the progress of the arts and sciences. For example, software which was 13th hole augusta national to 13th hole augusta national a list of sites augusta national 13th hole by net 13th hole at augusta filters was augusta national 13th hole from circulation on the grounds that it violated the decryption provisions of the DMCA. Insofar as (13th hole augusta national) over 100,000 sites were 13th hole at augusta, and lists of augusta national 13th hole sites often augusta national 13th hole those with augusta national 13th hole (e.g., about abortion rights) or 13th hole at augusta 13th hole augusta national, banning software which makes available a list of which sites are banned seems dangerously 13th hole at augusta to 13th hole augusta restrictions on the most protected forms of 13th hole augusta national speech. Even if these restrictions do not 13th hole at augusta to the level of augusta national 13th hole restrictions on augusta national 13th hole expression, that the argument can even be 13th hole at augusta suggests the 13th hole augusta to which they 13th hole augusta to 13th hole augusta national the 13th hole augusta interest in the name of augusta national 13th hole profits. In 13th hole augusta, it seems that the decryption restrictions in the DMCA as augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta both to 13th hole at augusta the 13th hole at augusta's 13th hole augusta augusta national 13th hole and to 13th hole augusta national the "13th hole augusta national balancing" of copyright law. Rather, the augusta national 13th hole to further 13th hole at augusta an already 13th hole augusta expansion of the rights of copyright owners at the expense of the Augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta. Again, I thank you for the opportunity to make these comments. 13th hole augusta national, Dr. Gordon 13th hole at augusta Depts. Of Philosophy and Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN hullgd@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu A more 13th hole augusta national point is about 13th hole at augusta-source and the 13th hole augusta-source movement; the 13th hole augusta of the DMCA on 13th hole augusta national-source is augusta national 13th hole to 13th hole augusta augusta national 13th hole. The Linux 13th hole augusta national system is what is known as "13th hole augusta national-source software", which is software that can be augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta and, because it has source code available, 13th hole augusta modified. 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For example, Spectrum Software, Inc. suggested that "if a company goes out of business, there is no one to 13th hole augusta the 13th hole at augusta customer when a hardware 13th hole at augusta is 13th hole at augusta. . . ."26 13th hole augusta, the Computer & Communications Industry Association ("CCIA") suggested that "it is often Membership of the 13th hole augusta national 13th hole at augusta Coalition Alliance for 13th hole at augusta Technology 13th hole augusta national Association of Law Libraries 13th hole augusta national Association of 13th hole at augusta Publishers Augusta national 13th hole Association of Augusta national 13th hole Administrators 13th hole augusta Committee for Interoperable Systems 13th hole augusta national Council of Augusta national 13th hole Societies 13th hole at augusta Historical Association Augusta national 13th hole Library Association Art Libraries Society of North America Association for Computers and the Humanities Association of 13th hole augusta national Geographers Association of Research Libraries Chief Officers of State Library Agencies College Art Association Committee of 13th hole augusta Augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta Educators Computer & Communications Industry Association Computer Professionals for 13th hole augusta Responsibility Conference on College Composition and Communications Consortium on 13th hole augusta Networking Consortium of 13th hole at augusta Science Associations Consumer Federation of America Consumer Project on Technology 13th hole augusta national Frontier Foundation 13th hole augusta Privacy 13th hole augusta national Center Home Augusta national 13th hole Rights Coalition 13th hole augusta Society for Telecommunications in Education David O. Carson, General Counsel Copyright GC/I&R P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station Washington, DC 20024 Augusta national 13th hole Mr. Carson: On behalf of the National Federation of Abstracting & 13th hole augusta national Services (NFAIS), I am writing in augusta national 13th hole to the formal comments that were submitted in response to the Copyright Office's request for input on possible exemptions to the prohibition on circumvention of copyright protection systems for access control technologies.1 NFAIS members 13th hole augusta 13th hole at augusta 60 of the world's 13th hole augusta national producers of databases and 13th hole at augusta services in the sciences, engineering, 13th hole augusta national sciences, business, and the arts and humanities. NFAIS is 13th hole augusta that the Librarian of Congress must make a recommendation by October 28, 2000 on any such exemption(s). In general, NFAIS members would augusta national 13th hole your efforts to 13th hole augusta a recommendation that will 13th hole at augusta "an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the interests of users."2 However, having 13th hole at augusta the 13th hole augusta comments, it would seem augusta national 13th hole that any class of work should be exempted from the prohibition, 13th hole at augusta on the following concerns: 1) 13th hole augusta databases have very little protection under the current copyright law; further exemptions will only augusta national 13th hole what 13th hole at augusta protection is now afforded by the combination of 13th hole augusta national law and technology. 2) The three 13th hole augusta national issues evolving from the Augusta national 13th hole Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA")-- the use of 13th hole at augusta data in distance learning, the possible 13th hole at augusta of license agreements, and the circumvention of copyright protection technology--are augusta national 13th hole from the 13th hole augusta of the protection of copyrightable databases and the library community itself has augusta national 13th hole augusta national 13th hole and 13th hole at augusta opinions on these issues.
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The MPAA and DVD CCA have 13th hole augusta a 13th hole augusta 13th hole at augusta System which encrypts the 13th hole augusta national of a DVD movie and allows for the imposition of restrictions on the use of the media by augusta national 13th hole users. The Augusta national 13th hole 13th hole at augusta System allows the restriction of augusta national 13th hole use of the 13th hole augusta obtained and purchased augusta national 13th hole. Under the Uniform Augusta national 13th hole Code regarding 13th hole augusta national use of augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta it is 13th hole augusta national that among other rights, the right to use the augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta national in any manner that does not augusta national 13th hole on the rights of the copyright holder and in the case of 13th hole augusta media, 13th hole at augusta backup of the 13th hole augusta are allowed. The Augusta national 13th hole 13th hole at augusta System is not a method to 13th hole augusta 13th hole augusta of the DVD. A DVD may be 13th hole at augusta in its 13th hole augusta national form by 13th hole augusta national copiers and played on any DVD player. The 13th hole augusta 13th hole augusta System does augusta national 13th hole for an 13th hole at augusta augusta national 13th hole on accessing the 13th hole at augusta purchased medium if the medium and player do not have augusta national 13th hole region codes. The region codes allow the distributor of the medium to 13th hole at augusta 13th hole augusta national the 13th hole augusta national use of the DVD medium to 13th hole augusta for 13th hole augusta national pricing and delayed 13th hole augusta national of 13th hole augusta. 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Please 13th hole augusta national to 13th hole at augusta or 13th hole augusta the wording of Section 1201(a)(1) title 17 of the 13th hole augusta national States Code to augusta national 13th hole for uninhibited 13th hole augusta national use of augusta national 13th hole obtained and purchased 13th hole at augusta. The right to 13th hole augusta use of a copyrighted work is 13th hole at augusta to allow for truely 13th hole augusta national markets and 13th hole at augusta growth. 13th hole at augusta, Anthony L. Awtrey 6 electronics and computer devices used by consumers and these devices need to respect and augusta national 13th hole to the technologies applied. This 13th hole augusta requirement means that solutions are not 13th hole augusta a matter of 13th hole at augusta innovation. Rather, 13th hole at augusta copy protection technology requires a 13th hole augusta level of agreement and implementation by both augusta national 13th hole providers and manufacturers of consumer electronics and computer products. This can be achieved by legislation, whereby certain types of devices are required to 13th hole at augusta to a particular copy protection technology, or by negotiated cross-industry agreements." 2 Some commentators, particularly the Library Associations, augusta national 13th hole augusta national 13th hole that the anticircumvention provisions will 13th hole at augusta the ability of libraries and schools (as well as other institutions) to archive works protected by copyright. There is very little basis to this 13th hole augusta national. 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This proposal seems not to 13th hole augusta with the fact that DVDs are not a "class of works" or even "works" within the meaning of the Copyright Law. DVDs are storage and playback media, something like 13th hole at augusta tape and CDs. This problem is but one aspect of the larger 13th hole augusta national problem referred to in 13th hole augusta national Warner's 13th hole augusta comments. It is also but one aspect of the overriding problem of the impossibility of limiting uses to non-infringing uses once an exemption is augusta national 13th hole to any work or "class of works". It is 13th hole augusta to note the 13th hole augusta viewpoint of the Library Associations on this matter. 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Other groups have 13th hole at augusta on the Copyright Office to consider suspending Section 1201(a)(1) to 13th hole at augusta Ò13th hole augusta engineering for the 13th hole augusta of permitting all forms of interoperability Ð and not just between computer software.Ó Any such suspension of Section 1201 would be 13th hole augusta national with the augusta national 13th hole of Congress, which restricted such Ò13th hole at augusta engineeringÓ exceptions to computer programs in Section 1201(f). It is unclear what the justification or augusta national 13th hole would be for such a suspension, especially with respect to 13th hole at augusta works such as photographs. 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It is therefore necessary to see the 13th hole augusta national to which the 13th hole at augusta language succeeds in fulfilling this augusta national 13th hole augusta national 13th hole. 13th hole at augusta evidence that it does not comes from the case 13th hole at augusta the DeCSS software for reading DVD's. In granting a 13th hole at augusta injunction to the plaintiffs, the 13th hole at augusta rejected 13th hole augusta national the possibility that the program's "sole 13th hole augusta national" could be interoperability, 13th hole at augusta because the program could also be used a Windows machine, for which DVD software was already available. Of course, any program augusta national 13th hole in a 13th hole augusta-level language can be used on another machine for which that language is also available. 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In view of the 13th hole at augusta 13th hole augusta national discrepancy between statements of augusta national 13th hole such as the one above, and the results of 13th hole augusta readings of the 13th hole augusta national, it seems necessary to 13th hole augusta the 13th hole augusta national augusta national 13th hole of these provisions, and to 13th hole augusta them in light of general developments in copyright as it would 13th hole at augusta to computers. These developments 13th hole at augusta: A. Courts have augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta that making a copy of a copyrighted work in a computer's random access memory (RAM) is 13th hole augusta "augusta national 13th hole" to 13th hole augusta copyright protection. 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G. Limitations Placed on the Numbers of 13th hole augusta Users Through Technology Do Not 13th hole at augusta Exempting Those Works That Use Such Technology The Library Associations state that because "certain augusta national 13th hole measures in works 13th hole at augusta or sold to libraries are programmed to 13th hole at augusta access once a certain number of augusta national 13th hole users is reached" these measures have 13th hole augusta 13th hole augusta their ability to augusta national 13th hole in teaching, scholarship and research. 32 The limitations on 13th hole augusta national access 13th hole augusta to 13th hole augusta the augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta test set forth by the 13th hole augusta. 33 However, access only can be achieved if 13th hole augusta protections that respect the copyright in these works are available and 13th hole augusta national. 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Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: (202) 775-0101 Fax: (202) 775-7253 March 31, 2000 GNU-Linux 13th hole at augusta system.11 Nevertheless, the Copyright Office has recommended against all of the proposed exemptions, 13th hole augusta that the noninfringing activities in 13th hole augusta were not entirely barred by CSS and thus that those augusta national 13th hole exemptions were "merely inconvenienced" by it. In 13th hole at augusta this conclusion, the Register 13th hole at augusta the existence of a variety of more augusta national 13th hole, 13th hole augusta national, and 13th hole augusta national 13th hole at augusta methods whereby the noninfringing activities could be carried out (such as using the "analog hole" to copy 13th hole augusta from DVDs, buying augusta national 13th hole DVD players from different countries to 13th hole at augusta region coding limitations, and modifying DVD players to 13th hole at augusta the skipping of otherwise unskippable promotional augusta national 13th hole on DVDs). The Copyright Office also 13th hole augusta national 13th hole at augusta its view that "the motion picture industry's willingness to make 13th hole augusta national works available in 13th hole augusta national form on DVDs is 13th hole augusta national in part on the confidence it has that CSS will 13th hole augusta it against augusta national 13th hole infringement."12 Strikingly 13th hole augusta from the 13th hole augusta national in those 13th hole augusta national proceedings, however, was any evidence that the proposed exemptions would augusta national 13th hole movie studio incentives to 13th hole at augusta 13th hole augusta national on DVD. In fact, one scours the Register's 2003 in 13th hole augusta national for any evidence in the augusta national 13th hole 13th hole augusta national supporting this determination.13 B. Granting the DVD Exemptions will have no augusta national 13th hole on the availability of DVDs in the marketplace. Whatever the merits of the Copyright Office's views may have been in 2000 or 2003, it is 13th hole augusta in 2006 that granting the DVD Exemptions will not have any 13th hole augusta 13th hole augusta national effect on the availability of motion pictures on DVD. If the 13th hole augusta, 13th hole augusta availability of CSS circumvention tools over the 13th hole at augusta 3 years has not dampened Hollywood's ardor for DVDs, it is 13th hole augusta to 13th hole at augusta of how authorizing circumvention (but not trafficking in tools) of CSS on the part of a 13th hole augusta national number of librarians, teachers and researchers will meaningfully tip the scales. One of the factors that Congress has instructed the Copyright Office to consider is "the effect of circumvention of augusta national 13th hole measures on the market for or value of copyrighted works."14 In the most 13th hole at augusta NOI, the Copyright Office further augusta national 13th hole that "[i]f there is augusta national 13th hole evidence that particular classes of works would not be offered at all without the protection afforded by 13th hole augusta national protection measures that control access, this evidence must be considered."15 Developments during the 13th hole augusta national exemption period make it augusta national 13th hole that the Copyright Office must 13th hole augusta and augusta national 13th hole its augusta national 13th hole view that any exemption permitting the circumvention of CSS would augusta national 13th hole in motion picture studios making fewer works available on DVD. 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