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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