Congress Again Considering Database Protection Bill

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo News is reporting on a new bill in Congress: '... a proposed bill that would prevent wholesale copying of school guides, news archives and other databases which do not enjoy copyright protection.'" The idea of database protection legislation has been kicking around for a long time. It's a bad idea, but it would make a lot of money for a few companies, so they keep pushing it, and no doubt will eventually get it passed.

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of course

[bigmase521]

Of course they'll try and pass it. Anything that makes a lot of money for companies is likely to get passed due to the ridiculous amounts of lobbying they all do. Which is a shame because so many things get overlooked due to the monetarily-heavy-backed lobbyists making sure the focus is all on them. When it gets to be companies making money, over the well-being of a school then it more of a problem than most people are willing to recognize. FP BTW!