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

Introduced: February 27, 2007 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
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)
Feb 27, 2007
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now March 19, 2007

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

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