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Reply Comments on Anticircumvention Rulemaking

Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies

Federal Register Notice - 64 FR 226 Docket No. RM 99-7

Reply comments in this rulemaking were due March 31, 2000. The Office has received 129 Reply comments. All Reply Comments are posted below. Paper copies of the Reply Comments are also now available in the Copyright Office for inspection and limited borrowing.

Document Organization Date
1 Doug Dingus March 11, 2000
2 Ian Turner March 14, 2000
3 Adrian Tymes March 16, 2000
4 Brian Wong March 18, 2000
5 Brian Hayward March 18, 2000
6 Peter Hiltz March 18, 2000
7 Joel Auslander March 19, 2000
8 David Diamante March 19, 2000
9 D. Nathan Cookson March 19, 2000
10 Zigurd Mednieks March 19, 2000
11 Paul Wayper March 19, 2000
12 Emil J. Wisekal March 19, 2000
13 Scott Phillips March 19, 2000
14 Ed Bianchi March 19, 2000
15 Alik Widge March 19, 2000
16 Michael L. Love March 19, 2000
17 Bryan Wagstaff March 19, 2000
18 Atabey Kaygun March 19, 2000
19 James Prendergast March 19, 2000
20 Kel Hausken March 20, 2000
21 Bill Moshier March 20, 2000
22 Devin Carraway March 20, 2000
23 David Acklam March 20, 2000
24 John Starke March 20, 2000
25 Edward Wittmann March 21, 2000
26 Charles Lane March 21, 2000
27 Eleventh Alliance
Peter Magnuson
March 21, 2000
28 Linas Vepstas March 22, 2000
29 Seth Delackner March 22, 2000
30 Peter Gillespie March 22, 2000
31 Jacob Mandelson March 22, 2000
32 Alexander J. Urbelis March 24, 2000
33 Mete Gencyuz March 24, 2000
34 Dennis Dillon March 24, 2000
35 Pandurang Rao March 24, 2000
36 Shana Skaletsky March 24, 2000
37 Gerard Ashton March 24, 2000
38 James W. Bonalumi March 24, 2000
39 Jameson Quinn March 27, 2000
40 Michael A. Buendia March 28, 2000
41 Elizabeth Blanco March 28, 2000
42 Jason G. Fleming March 28, 2000
43 Zachariah Heyer March 28, 2000
44 Michael Moreland March 28, 2000
45 Time Warner
(Bernard R. Sorkin)
March 28, 2000
46 Anya Mailandt March 28, 2000
47 David Taylor March 28, 2000
48 Dale Pontius March 28, 2000
49 Harvin Griffith Lawhon March 28, 2000
50 Society of American Archivists
(Susan E. Fox)
March 29, 2000
51 The National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services
(Richard T. Kaser)
March 30, 2000
52 Kathleen Harpenau March 30, 2000
53 Seaton Thedinger March 30, 2000
54 Alfredo Raul Ramos March 30, 2000
55 Jeb Murry Bowden March 30, 2000
56 Ken Arromdee March 30, 2000
57 Price Wilson March 30, 2000
58 Daniel Hull March 30, 2000
59 Software & Information Industry Association (Ken Wasch) March 30, 2000
60 Michael Glass March 30, 2000
61 W. Wade Hampton IV March 30, 2000
62 Digital Future Coalition,
(Skip Lockwood)
March 30, 2000
63 Ryan Byrne March 30, 2000
64 Dayna Rachelle Newell March 30, 2000
65 Jason Richard Fernandez March 30, 2000
66 Art Libraries Society of North America (Karen McKenzie) March 30, 2000
67 Open Source Initiative
(Eric S. Raymond)
March 30, 2000
68 Arnold G. Reinhold March 30, 2000
69 Gordon Hull March 30, 2000
70 Hayley Butera March 30, 2000
71 Mike Milewski March 30, 2000
72 American Society of Media
Photographers
(Victor S. Perlman)
March 30, 2000
73 Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(Andrew Oram)
March 31, 2000
74 DVD Copy Control Association
(John Hoy)
March 31, 2000
75 National Library of Medicine
(Kent A. Smith)
March 31, 2000  
76 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(Joan McGivern)
March 31, 2000
77 Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
(Jule Sigall)
March 31, 2000
78 Robert S. Whitlock March 31, 2000
79 Eli Snyder March 31, 2000
80 National Archives and Records Administration
(Gary M. Stern)
March 31, 2000
81 Tyler Schlecker March 31, 2000
82 Andrew Bunner March 31, 2000
83 American Library Association, American Association of Law Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, Special Libraries Association
(Miriam M. Nisbet)
March 31, 2000
84 American Business Press, The McGraw-Hill Companies, National Association of Securities Dealers, Newspaper Association of America, Phillips International, Inc., Reed Elsevier Inc., SilverPlatter Information, Inc., Skinder-Strauss Associates, Software and Information Industry Association, Thomson Corporation
(Christopher Mohr)
March 31, 2000
85 Walter Irwin Nissen March 31, 2000
86 Jude Smith March 31, 2000
87 Scott F. Williams March 31, 2000
88 Newspaper Association of America
(David S. J. Brown)
March 31, 2000
89 Matthew T. Kohner March 31, 2000
90 Daniel E. Maddux March 31, 2000
91 Real Networks, Inc.
(Kelly Jo MacArthur)
March 31, 2000
92 Ronald Beecher Greenman March 31, 2000
93 Przemek Klosowski March 31, 2000
94 Home Recording Rights Coalition
(Ruth Rodgers)
March 31, 2000
95 Doug Mitchell March 31, 2000
96 Templar Studios Inc
David Wood
March 31, 2000
97 American Electronics Association, American Film Marketing Association, Business Software Alliance, Consumer Electronics Association, Information Technology Industry Council, Interactive Digital Software Association, Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, DVD Copy Control Association (William T. Archey, Jean M. Prewitt, Robert Holleyman, Gary Shapiro, Rhett B. Dawson, Douglass Lowenstein, Jack Valenti, Hilary Rosen, Joy Hoy) March 31, 2000
98 Broadcast Music, Inc
(Marvin L. Berenson)
March 31, 2000
99 Russ Cage March 31, 2000
100 Ajesh Ajay Bhargava March 31, 2000
101 Peter L. Watkins March 31, 2000
102 Chris Gottbrath March 31, 2000
103 Daniel C. L'Hommedieu March 31, 2000
104 LoboSoft, Inc. (Stephen Feather) March 31, 2000
105 Reed Elsevier Inc.
(Marc Teren)
March 31, 2000
106 Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio, Association of America's Public Television Stations

(Gregory Ferenbach, Neal Jackson, Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis)
March 31, 2000
107 Dave Lacy Kusters March 31, 2000
108 Benjamin J. Stassart March 31, 2000
109 Copyright Commons, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
(Wendy Seltzer, Bryan W. Taylor)
March 31, 2000
110 Jeff Stanton March 31, 2000
111 National Agricultural Library
(Pamela Q.J. Andrè)
March 31, 2000
112 American Film Marketing Association, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, American Society of Media Photographers, Association of American Publishers, Association of American University Presses, The Authors Guild, Inc., Broadcast Music, Inc., Business Software Alliance, Directors Guild of America, Interactive Digital Software Association, The Mcgraw-Hill Companies, Motion Picture Association of America, National Music Publishers' Association, Professional Photographers of America, Recording Industry Association of America, Reed Elesevier, Inc., SESAC, Inc.(Steven J. Metalitz) March 31, 2000
113 Soumen Nandy March 31, 2000
114 Electronic Frontier Foundation
(Robin D. Gross)
March 31, 2000
115 Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.
(Riley R. Russell)
March 31, 2000
116 Michael Ossmann March 31, 2000
117 Marcia K. Wilbur March 31, 2000
118 Business Software Alliance
(Robert W. Holleyman II)
March 31, 2000
119 Association of America Universities, the American Counsel on Education, and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
(John Vaughn)
March 31, 2000
120 Dave Aitel March 31, 2000
121 James D. McIninch March 31, 2000
122 Aaron D. Haney March 31, 2000
123 Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
(Fritz E. Attaway)
March 31, 2000
124 Donald H. Phillips March 31, 2000
125 Peter D. Junger March 31, 2000
126 Ralph Green, Jr. March 31, 2000
127 Bernard HP Gilroy March 31, 2000
128 Alexander M. Mitelman March 31, 2000
129 Graphic Artists Guild
(Daniel Abraham)
March 31, 2000



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