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June 01, 2005
Good News on Broadcast Flag in DTV Bill
Posted by Ernest Miller
Over on Copyfight, Donna Wentworth cites a report that the main author of the mandatory DTV switchover bill, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), opposes adding the Broadcast Flag to the bill (CommDaily: MPAA May Not Seek Broadcast Flag in DTV Bill). Quoting Communications Daily, which is not freely available:
The Motion Picture Association of America is unlikely to push for a broadcast flag component in DTV legislation establishing a 2008 hard date because the bill's main author, House Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), is against the provision. Meanwhile, the MPAA will keep briefing House and Senate members on a broadcast flag bill's importance and seek other ways to get the content protections it wants.
Given that I reported earlier that
no committee members were known to oppose the inclusion of the Broadcast Flag in the bill, this is very good news (
Broadcast Flag Rears Its Ugly Head in DTV Transition Hearings). However, as noted, the
MPAA is still pushing a separate bill on the matter.
Apparently there is also a new Congressional Research Service report on the Broadcast Flag. More when the report is available.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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