Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (S. 167) passes

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Copyright Legislation Clears Congress
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Congress got on the copyright scoreboard earlier this week, as the House 
cleared the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (S. 167). The Senate 
passed the bill in February, so the bill goes to the White House for 
President Bush's signature.

The bill makes it a crime to use a camcorder in a movie theatre to record 
the film being shown.

The bill passed without any major controversy or debate, as it was 
generally the most non-controversial items left over from last year's 
copyright debate. The Family Movie Act part of the legislation would make 
it legal for companies to provide DVD players that would skip past 
objectionable sex, violence or other content. House Judiciary Committee 
Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) framed the issue as one 
addressing the desire of parents to control what their children see in the 
privacy of their homes. Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman Lamar 
Smith (R-Tex.), agreed, saying parents should be able to skip over any 
material they want in order to protect their children. Rep. Chris Cannon 
(R-Utah), whose state is home to companies making the controversial DVD 
players now involved in litigation, made the same point.

Congressional friends of the entertainment industry, while generally 
supporting the bill, disagreed on this point. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Cal.), 
senior Democrat on the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, said the issue 
wasn't one of protecting children, but was one of whether one commercial 
company could sell technology that fundamentally alters a creative work. He 
compared it to someone republishing a book with controversial passages 
eliminated. Rep. Diane Watson (D-Cal.), chair of the Congressional 
Entertainment Caucus said that she supported the bill generally, but not 
the Family Movie Act part because it would allow for the destruction of 
artistic vision.
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