As noted here, Copyright Shenanigans Not Over in Congress - Piracy Education Act Dangerous, there was concern that a mishmash copyright law bill would come out of Congress near the end of this session. Thankfully, the proposed legislation did not make it to a vote.

Its scary that legislation with such far-reaching effects and unintended consequences would get so close to passage in the first place.

Combined with the death of the INDUCE Act, this is a great victory for everyone who opposed anti-innovation legislation this year, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to the American Conservative Union, from Public Knowledge to the Consumer Electronics Association, from the American Library Association to the IEEE-USA and many, many others.

Of course, the battle will continue, into the lame duck session and next term. Nevertheless, this has been a significant year for this great ad hoc coalition. Ten years ago I doubt that any of this legislation would have been significantly slowed, let aloned stopped. We must continue to build on this year's successes.