March 8, 2007 - 2:11am
By Mary Cirella
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On Feb. 27, Reps. Rick Boucher (D-V.A.), Zoe Lofgren (D-C.A.) and John Doolittle (R-C.A.) introduced a new bill making it easier for scholars to access copyrighted material without impeding on copyright laws. The Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007, also referred to as The Fair Use Act, will limit the amount of control that content owners are granted by copyright laws over their work.