July 9, 2004

Library Groups Join Effort to Ease Copyright Law's Restrictions on Digital Sharing

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

The Association of American Universities and five academic library groups have joined a coalition that seeks to make the digital distribution of copyrighted works easier in some circumstances. The coalition already includes consumer groups and telecommunications and electronics companies.

Calling itself the Personal Technology Freedom Coalition, the group is backing legislation that would revamp the controversial section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act known as the

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