Transmissions may best be dealt with under production rights. Some transmissions may be both a copy and a performance. Supports changes to first-sale doctrine. Supports the idea of a conference bringing together different interests. More so than any group other than law professors, consumers decried the sharp reduction in fair use that they perceived in the proposals.
Proposal is too expansive.
Proposal would give copyright owners control of a secondary market. A consumer's ability to dispose of works received electronically would be curtailed. Except for Trotter Hardy, most of the professors are highly critical of the proposals. They say they package would cut into users' existing rights under such doctrines as fair use and tilt the power in favor of copyright owners. Copyright holders do not need absolute control in order to encourage them.