“U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D.-Va.), a longtime champion of fair use rights, said Thursday the Copyright Office’s ruling earlier this week denying consumers the right to make ‘fair use’ copies of digitally recorded material except in very narrowly defined cases, was a ‘misguided decision.'” – DC.Internet.com, via eBookAd.
The TeleRead take: The good news is that some corporate interests are in favor of Boucher’s proposal to mitigate the DMCA’s effects. The story says: “Boucher said the tech community now considers fair use rights to be ‘one of its highest priorities’ and pointed out that supporters of his legislation include Intel, Verizon, Philips Electronics North America Corp., Sun Microsystems, Gateway, the Consumer Electronics Association, Computer and Communications Industry Association, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Computer Research Association and a variety of trade associations representing technology companies. “
