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Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging Copyright Bill
The Importance of writes "C|Net News is reporting that a new copyright bill, to be introduced next week by Sen. Orrin Hatch, will likely overturn the Betamax decision (which held that VCRs were legal) and threaten all sorts of innovation. EFF broke the story and Copyfight has been all over it. Don't miss the comments of law professor Susan Crawford who says, 'This is amazing. Now we're waaaaaay beyond contributory and vicarious theories of liability, which are court-created and pretty darn broad on their own.' Text of the bill here and PDF."
we shouldn't have let them change their minds.
"oops, too late, you already said you wanted to go."
Ben
Work Safe Porn
This should not be a lobbyocracy but a democratic republic.
Oh, that's easy enough to deal with. Just repeal the First Ammendment.
KFG
While Democrats tend to favor more government involvement and regulation, the general Republican philosophy favors less government and deregulation. What you are dealing with here is the same human corruption seen in both parties. The politician is selling out to lobbyists for personal gain in contradiction to his party's stated goals.
A good question for liberals: What do you see in Democrats these days? How are they better or even different from Republicans? They say one thing (i.e. what you want to hear), but they typically do something completely different (i.e. something that personally benefits him) after the election. You are deluding yourselves, if you believe otherwise. I can't even figure out what Kerry's positions are. He waffles more than Clinton did.
He leaves the Treason to the President.
Outing Valarie Plame as a CIA agent
Giving classified information about that we broke Iran's codes to Chalabi.