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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (138517)	4/15/2001 4:48:53 AM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 769667

"You mean to protect copyright?" No I mean extending copyright far beyond what the founding fathers intended. Such as doubling the amount of time beyond the death of the artist that a copyright applies (which is particularly abominable since Congress earlier extended Copyright law to cover software and the courts extended this to look and feel), and setting up the DeCSS debacle. I also do not care for the Satellite Home Viewer's Act, which restricts viewer's rights through preventing them from subscribing to the networks. Supposedly, the SHVA protects viewers by ensuring that their local broadcasters are not driven out of business by distant signals. Yet, the greatest threat to local broadcasters is the forced transition to HDTV. Indeed, an Erie station that was presented by our local paper as the last family owned full power television station in the U.S. was forced to sell because they would not afford to convert to HDTV. Too bad EchoStar could not have worked out a deal whereby they would have paid the costs of this station making the transition to HDTV in exchange for national retransmission rights to their signal. Chalk one more up to Clinton's Hollywood connections.