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Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002

Introduced: October 2, 2002 Introduced by: Lofgren, Zoe Democratic · California See on congress.gov
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Nov 12, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
Oct 2, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Oct 2, 2002
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002 - Amends Federal copyright law to: (1) include analog or digital transmissions of a copyrighted work within fair use protections; (2) provide that it is not a copyright infringement for a person who lawfully obtains or receives a transmission of a digital work to reproduce, store, adapt, or access it for archival purposes or to transfer it to a preferred digital media device in order to effect a non-public performance or display; (3) allow the owner of a particular copy of a digital work to sell or otherwise dispose of the work by means of a transmission to a single recipient, provided the owner does not retain his or her copy in a retrievable form and the work is sold or otherwise disposed of in its original format; and (4) permit circumvention of copyright encryption technology if it is necessary to enable a noninfringing use and the copyright owner fails to make publicly available the necessary means for circumvention without additional cost or burden to a person who has lawfully obtained a copy or phonorecord of a work, or lawfully received a transmission of it.
What's happening now November 12, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5522: Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-5522/
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