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9 HEARING ON EXEMPTION TO PROHIBITION ON
10 CIRCUMVENTION OF COPYRIGHT PROTECTION SYSTEMS
11 FOR ACCESS CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES
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15 DOCKET NO. RM 9907
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19 Tuesday, May 2, 2000
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23 The hearing in the above-entitled matter
24 was held in Room 202, Adams Building, Library of
25 Congress, 110 Second Street, S.E., Washington, D.C.,
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28 BEFORE:
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30 MARYBETH PETERS, Register of Copyrights
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32 DAVID CARSON, ESQ., General Counsel
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34 RACHEL GOSLINS, ESQ, Attorney Advisor
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36 CHARLOTTE DOUGLASS, ESQ., Principal Legal
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39 ROBERT KASUNIC, ESQ., Senior Attorney Advisor
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5 Panel I:
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7 Peter Jaszi 8
8 Digital Future Coalition
9 Sarah Wiant 19
10 American Association of Law Libraries
11 Betty Landesman 30
12 D.C. Library Association
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20 Christopher A. Mohr, Esquire 89
21 American Business Pres, et al.
22 David Mirchin 98
23 SilverPlatter
24 Joseph Montoro 110
25 Spectrum Software
26 Keith Kupferschmid 134
27 Software & Information Industry Assoc.
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1 P-R-O-C-E-E-D-I-N-G-S
2 10:10 a.m.
20 for downloading.
14 works.
12 others.
9 protection measures.
6 to consumers.
9 110.
17 privilege.
13 their claims.
16 Copyright Act.
17 pointed out.
5 classes of works.
2 thereof.
25 copies."
10 Sarah.
16 copyrights.
22 institutions.
6 to be adversely effected.
25 provided by libraries.
12 law.
18 divide.
9 information needs.
4 information uses.
12 information.
17 use.
25 protection.
11 electronic information.
21 to future generations.
18 archiving.
19 policy.
21 this morning.
7 way.
9 I'm a member.
12 old people.
18 So, you may think I'm here today because I've been
7 account.
6 always done.
3 resources to users.
8 in the past.
18 exemption.
5 to jump in.
18 various categories?
5 rule making.
18 focuses.
4 works?
15 possibility.
6 format.
17 lend it? And, we're going, lend? No, no, you buy a
3 version and this gains -- you can now lend this out,
4 mandated.
9 Okay. Rachel.
15 us for a quote.
25 disappears.
25 systems.
9 use.
24 there any way that you could have worked with the
9 library is mentioned.
21 out.
18 computer.
20 oh, you're the next user, click here and pay us, you
23 personally.
6 legal.
14 use that?
2 uses.
9 controls.
7 access.
23 immediate community.
9 copy.
20 limitation.
26 in that situation.
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1 MS. WIANT: What you could do to help us
5 copy.
4 database?
6 given moment.
10 elsewhere.
12 the problem?
26 copies.
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1 MR. CARSON: In this rule making all we
7 for you?
14 exist to us.
21 archival copying.
10 they're gone.
19 access controls.
26 exempt.
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1 Now, you have all, I think, to varying
12 infringing purposes.
19 others to suggest.
7 1201(a).
4 collection as a whole.
17 access.
15 thereof.
18 variety of things.
13 controls.
23 intended.
2 using?
7 Congressional intent.
26 speak.
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1 So, far from representing a departure
5 understanding.
16 that was out there and yet we're focusing, you know,
3 of works?
16 minute periods.
24 implementation.
10 answered that.
25 to your undertaking.
11 of the witnesses who are not and you can tell them
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1 A-F-T-E-R-N-O-O-N S-E-S-S-I-O-N
2 2:30 p.m.
8 today.
15 this thing.
24 slide show.
9 12:36 p.m.)
13 1201(a)(1)(A)'s protection.
5 human endeavor.
17 cost of creation.
20 repeat it here.
25 this proceeding.
24 educational communities.
24 products.
20 likely to be curtailed.
3 infringing use.
14 allowed.
24 subscription fees.
20 have it.
5 software.
23 number.
26 it from anywhere.
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1 So, the advantage here is that the
12 control technologies.
21 simultaneous user.
26 don't pay any more the rest of the year. We're not
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1 charging for any of the additional users.
15 anywhere.
7 it.
23 SilverPlatter.
4 opportunity.
20 prohibited.
20 work?
26 yes.
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1 In the world of computer software there
8 act.
7 1201(a).
11 be used and the user can continue with the quiet use
25 disk?
11 authentication.
24 industry.
2 it functions properly."
2 kind of problem.
24 Windows NT.
10 product replaced.
17 the dongle. So, now you can print, but cannot run
22 programs.
19 to the public.
12 where it is ridiculous.
12 cheat us."
16 and there are less headaches for the company and was
23 replacement device.
15 interoperability.
2 Mr. Kupferschmid.
3 interests.
13 making process.
7 comments are bona fide, I'm not saying they are, but
18 the prohibition.
24 other commentators.
12 1201(a)(1) is necessary.
8 value.
17 here.
24 out.
9 abused.
6 servicer.
22 the court could very well find ways to carve out and
11 represent.
5 technological protections.
6 these warez web sites and they will tell you exactly
11 or a service.
22 like that and the fact that, you know, this was
17 to define.
14 selling it on CD ROM.
11 correct?
14 user?
16 user?
18 improperly, not --
7 what are the head notes and what are the actual text
8 of the case.
17 comment?
7 material?
25 government information.
2 exemption.
20 needs to be addressed.
16 protection.
2 a different issue.
25 Isn't that --
12 effort.
8 here.
12 out of nowhere.
15 and rejected.
20 with.
22 calculus at all.
21 be able to?
25 to?
7 legitimate purpose?
12 they had a --
21 to do it?
2 material.
2 cetera, et cetera.
20 work.
2 that?
4 of user.
6 that way.
13 in our view.
23 at one point and decided that was not the way to go.
20 detail then.
7 industry.
12 respect to software?
25 stolen.
17 something.
21 either.
15 publisher, right?
18 that --
4 --
16 better term.
24 something happened.
17 permitted to circumvent?
17 already.
26 problem?
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1 MR. MONTORO: It's still breaking the
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