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Posts Tagged with congress

The Senate Ponders Bad IP Laws

Wired News reports that the Senate may try to pass a hellish cornucopia of copyright and IP laws during the current lame duck session:

The Senate might vote on HR2391, the Intellectual Property Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that opponents charge could…

IPac: Five of Six

Good news on the Intellectual Property front, as five of the six candidates supported by IPac won their races yesterday. The one exception was Brad Carson, who was contesting a tight Senate race in Oklahoma. While these six were the first,…

Induce Act Stalls

Great News! The INDUCE Act has stalled, and is most likely out for the rest of 2004 according to an AP story, as reported by Newsday, and linked to by Copyfight. A quote from the story:

Sensing an impasse after weeks…

Sen. Hatch: Pusher

Chipping Away at Our Civil Liberties

“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, May 13, 1798

I wish I could say that I am…

Screenscraping the Senate

XML.com has a great series about a guy who plans to “collect as much data on the U.S. government” so he can build “a site and a web service that make it possible to explore that data”. The first installment…

Hatch’s Hit List: 14 - 19

While I don’t have time to comment on these at the moment, I hope that I wil lbe able to offer up my thoughts on future list items, now that I am caught up. I may also swing back and…

Hatch’s Hit List: 9 - 13

Again, I do not have the time to provide commentary on Ernest Miller’s latest additions to Hatch’s Hit List, but I want to ensure you are aware of them:

Catching up to INDUCE

As I have been slammed with work and personal events, I haven’t kept my site up to date with news of the INDUCE Act. So, here is a quick post of links, likely to be followed by others, to try…

Hatch’s Hit List: 5 - 8

Well, sadly I don’t have the time to comment on Ernest Miller’s latest batch of Hit List items at the moment, but I want to ensure everyone is at least aware of the articles. I will try to add commentary when/if…