[KFCF Friends] KFCF Filing protects online privacy

[subs-admin@kfcf.org]

KFCF recently filed comments along with KPFA and the Electronic Frontier
Foundation to protect the privacy of those who listen to radio stations
on-line. We also were protesting the undue amount of paperwork required for
the streaming of music as part of internet broadcasting. As proposed the
rules would require 25 pieces of information for each piece of music played.
Below is a press release from the EFF on the privacy victory as a result of
our filing.

Rych Withers
KFCF/Fresno Free College Foundation
President
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HOLLYWOOD BACKS DOWN AFTER COPYRIGHT OFFICE THREATENS INTERNET RADIO PRIVACY


EFF is pleased to report that the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) has dropped its request to the U.S. Copyright Office
that webcasters be required to submit detailed records of user
information.

Last week, EFF released a joint comment to the Copyright Office, along
with The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the California
community broadcaster KPFA, and the Fresno Free College Foundation,
operator of KFCF 88.1, opposing the proposed recordkeeping
requirements.

In that comment, EFF and friends asked the Copyright Office to drop
all requirements that webcasters gather and report to copyright owners
information about individual listeners, including their country of
origin, local time zone, and a unique user identifier.

The RIAA's decision to drop the reporting requirements is exciting
news. Unfortunately, however, the RIAA's orginal request is still part
of the regulation being proposed by the Copyright Office. It's time to
make your voice heard again.

The Copyright Office continues to take public comments on this issue
until April 26. For more information on filing comments, see:
   http://www.loc.gov/copyright/fedreg/2002/67fr5761.html


Links:

"Groups Fear Webcast Listeners Will Lose Privacy," by Brenda Sandburg
of The Recorder:

http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View
&c=Article&cid=ZZZ7K0VZWZC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&s
howsummary=0

EFF Media Release on joint comments we sent to the U.S.Copyright Office:
   http://www.eff.org/IP/Audio/20020410_joint_co_comments_pr.html

EFF, EPIC, KPFA, and Fresno Free College Foundation comments to U.S.
Copyright Office:
   http://www.eff.org/IP/Audio/20020405_joint_co_comments.html
   http://www.eff.org/IP/Audio/20020405_joint_co_comments.pdf

U.S. Copyright Office proposed recordkeeping regulations and comments
of interested parties:
   http://www.loc.gov/copyright/carp/114/comments.html


Contact:

Fred von Lohmann, EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney
   fred@eff.org
   +1 415-436-9333 x123

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other topics in the April 12 (211th) Issue of EFFector:

   * EFF Honors Pioneer Award Winners
   * ALERT: Thank Gateway for Standing Up to Music Industry
     Bullies [global]
   * Blizzard Freezes Bnetd Gaming Platform, Sues Own Customers
   * Hollywood Backs Down After Copyright Office Threatens Internet
     Radio Privacy
   * EFF at Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference
   * "Consensus at Lawyerpoint" Alphabet Soup Contest Winners
   * Exchange Ideas with EFF Founders Kapor & Barlow


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Rychard E Withers * Fresno CA 93703 - Broadcast Engineer
rych@rych.org