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The Senate Ponders Bad IP Laws

November 16, 2004

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 make many users of peer-to-peer networks, digital-music players and other products criminally liable [...]

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IPac: Five of Six

November 3, 2004

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, IPac is still quite young, and thus didn’t have the opportunity to have a [...]

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Induce Act Stalls

October 8, 2004

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 of acrimonious debate, Hatch invited lawyers and lobbyists representing the sides to propose [...]

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Sen. Hatch: Pusher

October 7, 2004
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Chipping Away at Our Civil Liberties

October 5, 2004

“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 surprised that the House has decided to manipulate the findings and recommendations of the 911 [...]

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Screenscraping the Senate

September 3, 2004

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 is available: Screenscraping the Senate. This is extremely exciting, as it has the potential [...]

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Hatch’s Hit List: 14 – 19

August 5, 2004

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 comment upon select Hit List entries if time allows.

Hatch’s Hit List #14 – Deepnet Explorer
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Hatch’s Hit List: 9 – 13

August 4, 2004

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:

Hatch’s Hit List #9 – Darknets

For a number of reasons, some people don’t want to share certain files with the world. They would prefer to have private [...]

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Catching up to INDUCE

August 4, 2004

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 to atone for my sin:

A Copyright Fable Relevant to the INDUCE Act (IICA) and Other [...]

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Hatch’s Hit List: 5 – 8

July 20, 2004

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 time allows.

Hatch’s Hit List #5 – Automatic Online Translators
Ever do a search on Google [...]

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