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News: Digital Copyright Review Seeks Some Changes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A study released on Wednesday on how revised 
U.S. copyright law is working in the digital age recommends some 
legislative changes to clarify fair use by purchasers of legal copies.

But the U.S. Copyright Office study did not find sufficient evidence 
for a digital provision in that part of traditional copyright law 
that allows the owner of a legal copy of a work to sell or give it 
away.

There were problems, it said, ensuring that the sender of a digital 
work destroyed his or her copy. Physical copies degraded with time 
while digital formats could be reproduced flawlessly and disseminated 
nearly instantly to almost anywhere at little cost.

``We find the analogy to the physical world to be flawed and 
unconvincing,'' the study said.

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see http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010829/tc/tech_copyright_dc_1.html
for the rest of the story.
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