http://action.eff.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=esJNJ5OWF&b=124605&ievent=59502&action=705&template=x%2EascxRight now, under the Supreme Court's ruling in Sony v. Universal (the Betamax VCR case), devices like the iPod and CD burners are 100% legal -- not because they aren't sometimes used for infringement, but because they also have legitimate uses. The Court in Sony called these "substantial non-infringing uses." This has been the rule in the technology sector for the last 20 years. Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs have depended on it. Industries have blossomed under it. But the Induce Act would end that era of innovation. Don't let this happen on your watch - tell your Senators to fight the Induce Act!
The U.S. Senate recently passed the PIRATE Act, which is similar to the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act (PDEA, HR 4077). Since there is no official House version of PIRATE, all eyes are now on PDEA. If you haven't already done so, please consider asking your friends, family, and co-workers to tell their reps to oppose this bill. Thank you for your support.
You may not agree with the recording industry's war on file sharing, but under the Piracy Deterrence and Education Act (PDEA, HR 4077), you'd still have to pay for it. The PDEA would create the first criminal copyright penalties for people who aren't engaged in willful criminal conduct. Under the law's murky "negligence" standard, a person with 1,000 legally obtained songs could be sent to jail for three years if she fails to lock them up tight enough - and that's only for the first offense. In addition, the PDEA would force the government to push a lopsided "education" campaign that demonizes P2P while failing to mention your rights to use copyrighted material. To top it off, all of this would be funded with your tax dollars. Tell Congress to reject the PDEA and explore solutions that pay artists rather than punish people.
The Top 50 Silliest Uses for Silly Putty =
29 Use it to make copies when you have no quarters for the copy machine. -- Anne G., Vienna, Va. = to be outlawed by Senator Orin Hatch
DMCA allows no circumvention to make copies, even with a fair use of the underlying copyrighted material - This means that the lifetime of the storage media is the lifetime of the software..
http://research.yale.edu/http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1549Ernie Miller's Guide to the INDUCE Act
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Inducing Infringement4of Copyrights Act of 2004’’.
SEC. 2. INTENTIONAL INDUCEMENT OF COPYRIGHT IN-6FRINGEMENT.
Section 501 of title 17, United States Code, is8amended by adding at the end the following:9O:\COE\COE04694.LC
S.L.C.‘‘(g)(1) In this subsection, the term ‘intentionally in-1duces’ means intentionally aids, abets, induces, or procures, and intent may be shown by acts from which a reasonable person would find intent to induce infringement based upon all relevant information about such acts then5reasonably available to the actor, including whether the activity relies on infringement for its commercial viability. ‘‘
(2) Whoever intentionally induces any violation8identified in subsection (a) shall be liable as an infringer.‘‘
3) Nothing in this subsection shall enlarge or diminish the doctrines of vicarious and contributory liability for copyright infringement or require any court to unjustly withhold or impose any secondary liability for copyright infringement.’’.
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