Orrin Hatch to Lead Senate Panel on Copyright, Patents

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 20, 2005 @12:49AM from the can-we-batten-down-the-hatches? dept.

PontifexPrimus writes "Senator Orrin Hatch, (in)famous for his idea of destroying the computers of copyright violators is to head a Senate 'panel, which will have jurisdiction over copyright, trademark and patent law, as well as treaties intended to protect American intellectual property overseas.' Looks like file sharing will finally be erased once and for all. Oh, and this looks like another field day for those who refuse to subsume patent, trademark and copyright law under the heading of 'IP law.'"

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Conflict of interests by zecg · 2005-03-20 00:56 · Score: 5, Funny

There's a conflict of interests at work here, senator is just scared that everyone will download his awesome music for free.

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