December 15, 2000
Scholars and Libraries Want Permission to Copy Electronic Materials
Scholars and library groups pressed the U.S. Copyright Office last month to support amending federal copyright law to explicitly allow for copying and distribution of electronic material.
They want the office to urge Congress to revise the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to specify that a buyer of copyrighted electronic material can resell, lend, or share that material without the copyright holder's consent -- a provision known as the first-sale
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