Senate passes copyright bill criminalizing pre-release movie distribution over P2P, addresses TiVo/ClearPlay skipping

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ethan Ackerman <eackerma () u washington edu>
Date: November 23, 2004 12:16:43 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Senate passes copyright bill criminalizing pre-release movie  
distribution over P2P, addresses TiVo/ClearPlay skipping
Reply-To: eackerma () u washington edu

Greetings Dave,

Recent Interesting People posts have discussed several copyright bills
wending their way through Congress, and several are now much closer to
becoming law.

The Senate passed S.3021, a copyright bill combining several parts of  
these
bills, in its marathon appropriations bill session Saturday.  While  
several
other issues (intelligence reform, tax return snooping) took center  
stage,
this is rather big copyright news - both bodies have now passed a  
version of
these Copyright criminalization bills.

More reactions from various public interest organizations, ALA, etc. are
likely to come up, but it looks like Public Knowledge already has a  
release
about this bill.
(http://www.publicknowledge.org/pressroom/pressrelease.2004-11 
-22.6500991518
) - they generally sound OK with it, making a point of thanking the  
Senate
for not adopting some of the more contentious provisions.


(Keep in mind that the Senate and House have to conference on it, so it
isn't ready to be sent to the Pres. YET, but Congress is technically  
still
in session, and planning to come back in December, so it is quite  
possible
we could still see final legislation...)

-Ethan Ackerman




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