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  11/20 it passed the Senate.
But John McCain attached a boxing provision that may be a poison pill for
the House.  And since the House and Senate bills will not be the same, there is
another shot in the Conference Committee. Orrin Hatch
is actually the Senator from Hollywood. ~JW

11/22
That bill that was driving nails into the coffin of
fair use went down to defeat late on Sunday. The
film and recording moguls had lined up a bipartisan majority to  get the
Attorney General to be their lawyer, and totally ignored the fair use
provisions we need for libraries and archives. ~JW

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Senate May Ram Copyright Bill
By Michael Grebb

WASHINGTON -- Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies
are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say
would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record companies and
which Congress might try to push through during a lame-duck session that
begins this week.

The Senate might vote on HR2391
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.02391:>, the Intellectual
Property Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that opponents charge could
make many users of peer-to-peer networks, digital-music players and other
products criminally liable for copyright infringement. The bill would also
undo centuries of "fair use" -- the principle that gives Americans the right
to use small samples of the works of others without having to ask permission
or pay.

The bill lumps together several pending copyright bills including HR4077, the
Piracy Deterrence and Education Act, which would criminally punish a person
who "infringes a copyright by ... offering for distribution to the public by
electronic means, with reckless disregard of the risk of further
infringement." Critics charge the vague language could apply to a person who
uses the popular Apple iTunes music-sharing application.

The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable
content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that
consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any
commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited. The proposed
law also includes language from the Pirate Act (S2237), which would permit
the Justice Department to file civil lawsuits against alleged copyright
infringers.

(The rest of the article is at
<http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65704,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2>)


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