H.R. 1201 would amend title 17, United States Code, to promote innovation, to encourage the introduction of new technology, to enhance library preservation efforts, and to protect the fair use rights of consumers.
Detailed Summary
Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 - Requires U.S. courts to remit statutory damages for secondary infringement of copyright, with the exception of cases in which the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that the act or acts constituting secondary infringement were done under circumstances in which no reasonable person could have believed such conduct to be lawful.
Prohibits any person from being liable for copyright infringement based on the design, manufacture, or distribution of a hardware device or of a component of such device if the device is capable of substantial, commercially significant noninfringing use.
Makes the prohibition on the circumvention of a technological measure (to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or to otherwise avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure without the authority of the copyright owner) that effectively controls access to a protected work shall non applicable to a person by reason of that person's engaging in a noninfringing use of any of the six classes of of copyrighted works set forth in the determination of the Librarian of Congress in Docket No. RM 2005-11, as published as a final rule by the Copyright Office, Library of Congress, effective November 27, 2006.
Excludes specified acts of circumvention from such prohibition.
Status of the Legislation
Latest Major Action: 3/19/2007: Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
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Visitor Comments
Dan
May 13, 2007, 8:00pm (report abuse)This bil is important to return the principle of fair use and stop the abuses of individuals using the DMCA to quell free speech with bogus takedown notices.
Josh Taylor
June 2, 2008, 4:32pm (report abuse)This bill will give us amnesty for any copyrighted material we have infringed. And like Dan says, It will end the abuse of DMCA. The Creation Science Evangelism had filed a False DMCA complaint claiming that the Kent Hovind music video that was posted on YouTube is theirs instead flagging the video as hate. The Hovind crime family and the CSE was charged of False DMCA claim. That's why this bill needs to be passed and signed into law.