FAIR USE Act

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FAIR USE Act
Full title	Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007
Acronym / colloquial name	FAIR USE Act
Citations
Codification
Act(s) amended	Digital Millennium Copyright Act
U.S.C. sections substantially amended	Section 504(c)(2), Title 17, United States Code
Legislative history
Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R. 1201 by Rick Boucher on February 27, 2007 Committee consideration by: Committee on the Judiciary Passed the House of Representatives on pending (pending) Passed the Senate on pending (pending) Signed into law by President on pending
Major amendments
none yet

The Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007, H.R.1201, or simply the FAIR USE Act of 2007 is a bill introduced February 27th, 2007 in the 110th Congress by Rick Boucher (Virginia-D) and cosponsored by Charlie Wyatt (California-R) and Zoe Lofgren (California-D) to the United States House of Representatives.

This bill seeks to return many fair use rights to citizens.

[edit] External links

• Electronic Frontier Foundation [1]
• The bill's source: [2]
• The US Library of Congress webpage on this bill [3]
• Open Congress' page on the bill [4]