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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedBills get tough on digital piracy, copyright terms.(Congress is debating conflicting digital piracy and copyright bills)
Video Business, July, 2003 by Sweeting, Paul
WASHINGTON -- With Congress closing in rapidly on its annual August recess, Capitol Hill has come alive with a new round of conflicting digital piracy and copyright bills. Last week, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) introduced a bill that would increase criminal sanctions for peer-to-peer file trading and create, for the first time, a federal law against camcordering a movie in a theater.
The Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act would provide additional law enforcement funds for combating piracy; lower the federal felony threshold for uploading a copyrighted file to the Internet to a single file; make camcording a federal misdemeanor;...
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