Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007

To amend title 17, United States Code, to promote innovation, to encourage the introduction of new technology, to enhance library preservation efforts, and to protect the fair use rights of consumers, and for other purposes.

2/27/2007--Introduced.
Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 - Requires U.S. courts to remit statutory damages for secondary infringement of copyright, with the exception of cases in which the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that the act or acts constituting secondary infringement were done under circumstances in which no reasonable person could have believed such conduct to be lawful. Prohibits any person from being liable for copyright infringement based on the design, manufacture, or distribution of a hardware device or of a component of such device if the device is capable of substantial, commercially significant noninfringing use. Makes the prohibition on the circumvention of a technological measure (to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or to otherwise avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure without the authority of the copyright owner) that effectively controls access to a protected work non-applicable to a person by reason of that person's engaging in a noninfringing use of any of the six classes of of copyrighted works set forth in the determination of the Librarian of Congress in Docket No. RM 2005-11, as published as a final rule by the Copyright Office, Library of Congress, effective November 27, 2006. Excludes specified acts of circumvention from such prohibition.

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Sponsor

• Rep. Frederick Boucher [D, VA-9]
• and 21 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. W. Akin [R, MO-2]
  • Rep. Rob Bishop [R, UT-1]
  • Rep. John Boozman [R, AR-3]
  • Rep. Dan Burton [R, IN-5]
  • Rep. Peter DeFazio [D, OR-4]
  • John Doolittle
  • Rep. Bob Filner [D, CA-51]
  • Luis Fortuño
  • Rep. Trent Franks [R, AZ-2]
  • Rep. Louis Gohmert [R, TX-1]
  • Rep. John Kline [R, MN-2]
  • Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
  • Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R, MI-11]
  • Charles Pickering
  • Rep. Joseph Pitts [R, PA-16]
  • Rep. David Price [D, NC-4]
  • Bill Sali
  • Rep. Mark Souder [R, IN-3]
  • Rep. Todd Tiahrt [R, KS-4]
  • Timothy Walberg
  • David Weldon
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Committees

• House Judiciary
• 1 more
  • House Judiciary
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Amendments

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February 27, 2007

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• Mar 19, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
• Feb 27, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
• Feb 27, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E407-408)
• Introduced on Feb 27, 2007.
• Feb 27, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR E407-408)

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September 12, 2007 Fair Use Worth $4.5 Trillion, Say Computer Companies

author of a bill that would expand fair-use protections, used the study as an opportunity to plug his bill, HR 1201, the Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing ...

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September 12, 2007 Digital Freedom Campaign Comment on Fair Use Study

To this end, we call on Congress to protect fair use rights by supporting HR 1201, the Fair Use Act." About Digital Freedom: Digital technology enables ...

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June 05, 2007 Treating Downloads Like Drug Deals

Legislation (HR 1201), proposed by representatives Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and John Doolittle (R-Calif.), would restore some balance by writing into law the ...

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December 18, 2008 wrigleyville23: Baseball: All-Time State Teams

Chuck Klein, OF, Indianapolis, 1928-44: .320/.379/.543, 300 HR, 1201 RBI, 1168 R, 2076 H, two-time All-Star, 1932 NL MVP (runner-up in '31 and '33). 7. Billy Herman, 2B, New Albany, 1931-47: .304/.367/.407, 47 HR, 839 RBI, 1163 R, ...

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December 12, 2008 MediaPost Publications - 10 Things You Need To Know About ...

Among pending bills, the Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (H.R. 1201), introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher, aims to limit damages for infringement under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act when ...

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October 03, 2008 MediaPost Publications - 10 Things You Need To Know About ...

Among pending bills, the Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (H.R. 1201), introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher, aims to limit damages for infringement under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act when ...

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