This Wednesday, at 10AM EST, the
Use: Its Effect on Consumers and Industry."

adopt their triple
horror bill
of the broadcast flag, digital radio controls, and their

If the entertainment industry's plan that session was to present their
proposals as uncontroversial fixes, they didn't succeed. As the concluding
speech by the Chairman Lamar Smith gently understated, their suggestions
provoked "more difference of opinion on the part of members [of the committee]
than usual."

So now the other side now gets their turn.
in tomorrow to hear the
href="">Library Copyright
Alliance, NetCoalition (whose
members include Yahoo! and Google), and the
href="">Consumer Electronics Association--plus the
return of Public Knowledge's
Gigi Sohn, who in the earlier hearing made such a
defense of consumer rights and fair use in the face of the entertainment
industry's attacks.

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