Hatch bill could cripple Betamax ruling: senator says P2P networks are intended targets.(Headliners)(Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch)

Video Business, June, 2004 by Sweeting, Paul

WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch has introduced a bill allowing copyright owners to sue companies for "inducing" people to commit copyright infringement--a development that critics say could gut the Supreme Court's landmark Sony Betamax ruling. The Inducing Infringement of Copyright Act would make anyone who "intentionally aids, abets, induces or procures" an infringement equally liable if "a reasonable person would find intent to induce infringement ...

including whether the activity relies on infringement for its commercial viability." Hatch said the measure is aimed at taking down peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa and Grokster that are primarily used to trade copyrighted files illegally. In a long and...

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