Ms. NANCE. I agree. Mr. GOODLATTE.-on a slope toward telling the intellectual property community as a whole, including the motion picture industry, that we're going to have a situation where they begun the process of eroding their ability to protect their intellectual property Ms. NANCE. I completely agree with you. I've fought these peerto-peer sites tooth and nail over pornography. Mr. GOODLATTE. Ms. Peters? Ms. PETERS. I'm an extremely strong supporter of technologies that are used by copyright owners to protect their works. As I understand the technology here, it does not implicate the anti-circumvention provisions. Mr. GOODLATTE. That is good. So, in other words, if we were to put a provision in here to say that other people attempting to do other things could not invade the language of the DMCA, you would, A, agree with that and, B, feel that it would not be harming companies like ClearPlay to kind of do what they're doing. Ms. PETERS. That's right.2 Mr. GOODLATTE. Dr. Etzioni? Mr. ETZIONI. Thanks for not giving a number to my age. [Laughter.] I see no reason these two concerns cannot be reconciled by allowing invasion for this purpose and not for sale or any other purpose, not setting a precedent for other violations. Let me just add one sentence. Several times we heard about the right of the creator of those works as if one right is an absolute and trumps all other rights. Ninety-five percent of what we do in ethics and much of what we do in law is try to deal with conflicting rights. In this case, it's the right of parents to bring up decent citizens against the right of a creator of a work to insist that children will see all of it and not part of it. Mr. GOODLATTE. Thank you for your forbearance, Mr. Chairman. Mr. SMITH. Thank you, Mr. Goodlatte. Let me say to the panelists that several Members have questions they would like to submit to you in writing. Particularly Mr. Berman I know has some questions. And if you all can respond to those within 2 weeks, we'd appreciate it. Further, the gentleman from California is recognized for a minute for some observations. Mr. BERMAN. I simply didn't want to be the only person on this Subcommittee not to comment on Mr. Valenti's, Jack's appearance here. I myself, given the time between I first heard of his interest in moving on from MPAA to now, I've assumed that this will not be the last time you would be appearing before our—if the past is prologue, we will see you again. But I hope particularly that you will understand and know the admiration and warmth I feel for you and what you've contributed to the industry, to the protection of intellectual property, and to my own personal abilities as a legislator here, as well as to the country from your service. Mr. VALENTI. Thank you. 2 See letter dated July 6, 2004, in the Appendix, p. 89, from the Honorable Marybeth Peters, for clarification of answer to question posed by Subcommittee Member. Mr. SMITH. Thank you, Mr. Berman, and I thank all the Members for their attendance, and I thank the witnesses for their very, very informative and good testimony today. And we stand adjourned. [Whereupon, at 11:35 a.m., the Subcommittee was adjourned.] APPENDIX MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING RECORD LETTER FROM THE HONORABLE MARYBETH PETERS The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office - 10s Independence Avenue SE - Washington, DC 20559-60008 · (202) 787-8350 July 6, 2004 Dear Chairman Smith: I am enclosing my corrections to the transcript of the June 17, 2004, hearing on H.R. 4586, the "Family Movie Act of 2004." After reviewing the transcript and carefully reading the questions, I have determined that I may not have completely understood two of the questions when they were asked. I therefore request that the record be corrected in the manner described in your letter of June 25, 2004, with the following explanations: 1. Page 45, line 948: My answer should have been: "I believe that the result would be the same if this bill were enacted as it 2. Page 66, line 1472: My answer should have been: "I do not believe that ClearPlay would be harmed by such a |