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Subject:    [DMCA_Discuss] ALA etc. Request "Broadcast Flag" Reply Extension
From:       Seth Johnson <seth.johnson () realmeasures ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2002-12-21 0:46:45
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(From the FCC ECFS site.  PDF text pasted below.  -- Seth)

> http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6513398794

In the Matter of                   ) 
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Digital Broadcast Copy Protection  )  MB Docket No. 02-230 
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To: The Commission 

The American Library Association, the American Association
of Law Libraries,  the Association of Research Libraries,
the Medical Library Association, and the Special  Library
Association (collectively “Libraries”) hereby request a
sixty (60) day extension  of time in which to file reply
comments to the FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking  regarding
Digital Broadcast Copy Protection (MB Docket No. 02-230) 
Interested parties,  including the Libraries, filed comments
on December 6, 2002.  Under the schedule  established in by
the Commission in the NPRM reply comments are due to be
filed  January 17, 2003#  If this extension is granted,
reply comments will be due to be filed on  March 17, 2003.

For the reasons set forth below, the Libraries respectfully
request that this request  be granted. 

This NPRM raises important issues that may affect the
ability of the public to  access and use information
distributed and/or maintained in a digital format.  The 
importance and significance of this rule making is, in part,
reflected by the more than  6,500 comments that have been
filed.   There are literally thousands of pages that need
to  be reviewed carefully and the current schedule does not
allow adequate time for that  review, much less the
preparation of thoughtful reply comments.   Indeed, a
cursory  review of a portion of the filed comments
indicate#numerous policy and public issues of  interest to
the Libraries as well as many other commenters which warrant
detailed and  thoughtful replies.  Thus, due to the volume
of the filed comments to be reviewed and the  complex and
important issues raised by the Broadcast Flag rule making,
the Libraries  believe that an extension of time to and
including March 17, 2003 is necessary and  appropriate. 

Respectfully submitted, 

The American Library Association 
The American Association of Law Libraries 
The Association of Research Libraries 
The Medical Libraries Association 
The Special Libraries Association 

By___________________ 
Professor Peter Jaszi 
Professor Richard Ugelow 
Akua Coppock 
Piper Nieters 
Gunther Oakey 
Samantha Thompson 
Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic 
4801 Massachusetts, NW Suite 417 
Washington, DC 20016-8184 

202-274-4148 
December 19, 2002

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