Abstract:
The Library Copyright Alliance (“LCA”) welcomes this opportunity to provide its
responses to Chairman Tillis’s questions regarding a possible Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(“DMCA”) reform bill.
At the outset, LCA states that it agrees with the Chairman’s belief that “American
copyright law needs to be modernized to be more responsive to current technologies, copyright
markets, and business practices.” Further, it agrees that “Congress should reform copyright law’s
framework…to protect users and consumers making lawful uses of copyrighted goods and
software enabled products….” In this vein, LCA concurs that section 1201 is “ripe for reform.”
However, LCA strongly disagrees that the Copyright Act needs amendment “to better
encourage the creation of copyrightable works….”