Last Day of Exemptions Hearings Best

The last day of the Copyright Office's DMCA Anticircumvention Exemptions
Hearings is the best one, to get a flavor for what the information freedom
movement may have accomplished in that forum.  Of course, Jay Sulzberger's
testimony on May 2 was a humdinger in a class all it own . . .

:-)

> http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/hearings/schedule.html

The last day's transcript:

> http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/hearings/transcript-may15.pdf

IP Justice, EFF and Ernest Miller laid out a lot of the key, essential
points.  Most interesting of all to me was the interchange between Mary Beth
Peters and Robin Gross on the licensing issue.  Peters clearly brings up the
contention that circumvention involves license violations as if it were a
bugbear issue and appears totally unprepared for Robin's clear statement
that these "licenses" do not actually constitute contracts.

There's a lot on this last day that's extremely good.  It's the longest
transcript, but if you want to get a sense of the best stuff that got
brought out in these hearings, that's the one to read.

Seth Johnson


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