IEEE Wants Congress To Re-Examine DMCA

softsign writes "Reading this story in this month's IEEE The Institute, I found that IEEE-USA quietly published two position papers asking the US Congress to re-examine and/or clarify sections of the DMCA last year. The papers - developed by the organization's Intellectual Property committee - specifically cite concerns over the chilling effects and misuse of the DMCA against researchers and ISPs. Initially, the IEEE was pretty wishy-washy about the DMCA, but it seems that they've been listening to their members and have developed a pretty strong anti-DMCA, pro-innovation stance. Including an enlightened view on Fair Use rights!"

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For more chilling effects...

[PseudoThink]

Check out http://www.chillingeffects.org.

This is good

[greymond]

I'm glad to finally see a big dog enter the fight. Don't get me wrong, the EFF and Slashdot community are great, but they have a tendancy to allow their bark to be louder than their bite.... So having the IEEE peeps start in on this is definately a good thing.

There are 3 papers specifically regarding the DMCA

[joggle]

IEEE-USA quietly published two position papers asking the US Congress to re-examine and/or clarify sections of the DMCA last year

Actually, there are three papers:

• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Encryption Research Provisions
• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Notice-and-Takedown Provisions
• And perhaps most importantly:
• User Rights in Digital Copyright