There will be a review of the US's copyright law by the United States Copyright Office (USCO), in relation to the DMCA. If this community wants to find some legitimacy, this is a great opportunity. As some of you know, on CDs/DVDs there are codes implemented to prevent copying. To create Fan Edits using the official release for instance, this mechanism must be circumvented. At the moment this act is illegal, thus squelching our chance to be creative. The USCO is looking for written responses on why this is bad legislation. I've included the official summary from the official USCO website, if interested visit their site for more info.

*** http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr57526.html ***

SUMMARY:
The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is preparing to conduct proceedings
in accordance with section 1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which was added by the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act and which provides that the Librarian of Congress
may exempt certain classes of works from the prohibition against circumvention of
technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The purpose of
this rulemaking proceeding is to determine whether there are particular classes
of works as to which users are, or are likely to be, adversely affected in their
ability to make noninfringing uses due to the prohibition on circumvention. This
notice requests written comments from all interested parties, including representatives
of copyright owners, educational institutions, libraries and archives, scholars,
researchers and members of the public, in order to elicit evidence on whether noninfringing
uses of certain classes of works are, or are likely to be, adversely affect
ed by this prohibition on the circumvention of measures that control access to
copyrighted works.

DATES:
Written comments are due by December 1, 2005. Reply comments are due by February
2, 2006.

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