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Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, will introduce a bill next week to regulate, and limit, DRM (digital rights management);
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....granting consumers the right to resell copy-protected products and requiring digital media manufacturers to prominently disclose to consumers the presence of anticopying technology in their products......
A draft of the Brownback bill provided to CNET News.com by a congressional aide also:
• Says the Federal Communications Commission may not force companies that create or sell PCs or digital video products to include specific copy-protection technology in them.
• Requires the FTC to create an advisory committee to describe "the ways in which access control technology and redistribution control technology may affect consumer, educational institution and library use of digital media products based on their legal and customary uses of such products."
• Says the FTC must prepare a report two years after the bill is enacted into law. The report would include information about how prevalent DRM technologies are, if they allow "consumers, educational institutions and libraries to engage in all lawful uses of the product," and how often copyright holders have tried to glean subscriber information from Internet service providers.
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Dr. Mordrid
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....granting consumers the right to resell copy-protected products and requiring digital media manufacturers to prominently disclose to consumers the presence of anticopying technology in their products......
A draft of the Brownback bill provided to CNET News.com by a congressional aide also:
• Says the Federal Communications Commission may not force companies that create or sell PCs or digital video products to include specific copy-protection technology in them.
• Requires the FTC to create an advisory committee to describe "the ways in which access control technology and redistribution control technology may affect consumer, educational institution and library use of digital media products based on their legal and customary uses of such products."
• Says the FTC must prepare a report two years after the bill is enacted into law. The report would include information about how prevalent DRM technologies are, if they allow "consumers, educational institutions and libraries to engage in all lawful uses of the product," and how often copyright holders have tried to glean subscriber information from Internet service providers.
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Dr. Mordrid
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