<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/11944c76-de5c-4468-a28b-34eb17aac94a/1191A332-83BA-45E3-BA25-CE984948E3A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr001=qr7nupc4p1.app8a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=271" href="https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr001=qr7nupc4p1.app8a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=271" style="font-size: 11px;">secure.eff.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr001=qr7nupc4p1.app8a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=271"><P class="ObjTitle">Support the FAIR USE Act of 2007</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr001=qr7nupc4p1.app8a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=271"><P>Reps. Rick Boucher and John Doolittle's FAIR USE Act would remove some of the entertainment industry's most draconian anti-innovation weapons and chip away at the <A href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA">Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA)</A> broad restrictions on fair use. 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