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Balkinization
It would appear that the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004 is dead. Newsday runs an AP wirestory on the death of INDUCE (Senate Talks Fail on File-Sharing Software). via Copyfight
For the record, according to an anonymous source, this draft version of the INDUCE Act from the copyright industries is the one that finally convinced consumer and technology groups that compromise wouldn't be reached: INDUCE Act - Copyright Owners' Tentative Proposal - 05 Oct 2004 [PDF]
This draft is most similar to the one pointed to by Ed Felton here: Recent Induce Act Draft.
Of course, we should all be wary of the mischief Congress accomplishes during lame duck sessions, as well as a revived INDUCE Act next term.
Might I suggest that the copyright industries spend more time and money developing new business plans rather than legislation-drafting lawyers?
Yeah, it's really simple -- all content owners have to do is come up with a business model that allows them to compete with free downloads, and make money while doing it! How come they haven't figured out how to do that?
Hmmmm ... reliability, reasonable prices, scope of offerings, speed, convenience, secondary applications, vs. unreliability, inconvenience, free and threats of lawsuits. Gee, wonder why the free P2P systems have been whomping their ass? Don't people want to pay for convenience anymore?
Of course, first to market would have helped, but they waited ... and waited ... and waited ... and didn't sue direct infringers ... and waited ... and finally tried to do too little too late.
Ah well...
"Might I suggest that the copyright industries spend more time and money developing new business plans rather than
legislation-drafting lawyers?"
You're a traitor to your race :-)
Tracked on October 8, 2004 12:08 AM
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INDUCE Is Dead...For Now from Copyfutures Well, it looks as though the INDUCE Act is pretty much dead. Well...ok, it's not officially dead yet, but it's essentially on life support. I'm sure everyone will miss it. As of Wednesday, Oct 7, it appears that the copyright [Read More]Tracked on October 8, 2004 09:09 AM
Killing digital viewing from Eternal Gaze: exploring advanced moving image Just as we are on the verge of space-shifting viewing (to go with the 'time-shifting' all but necessary now in a post-VCR era where we have multi-channel time-starved modern worklives), the Hollywood studios want to stop it. The flurry of proposals in ... [Read More]Tracked on October 15, 2004 03:24 PM
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