Inducing controversy: the principal enshrined in Betamax has become deeply embedded in U.S. law and business.(Headliners)(Inducing Copyright Infringement Act of 2004)

Video Business, October, 2004 by Sweeting, Paul

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Likely to sail through Congress quickly, the Inducing Copyright Infringement Act will fundamentally change current copyright law. * Rather that detail the bill, opponents are working to narrow the scope of its legislation, which could severely limit technological innovation.

WASHINGTON -- It took Congress four years to draft and pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the most sweeping revision of copyright law since the '70s. The Copyright Act of 1976, up till then the largest overhaul since 1909, was more than a decade in the making. The Inducing Copyright Infringement Act of 2004, however, which in its way is as sweeping as the DMCA, could sail through Congress in record time. Although a scheduled vote...

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