http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-06-07T21:39:31-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/07/cdts_balanced_framework_for_copyright_completely_unbalanced.php The Center for Democracy and Technology has released a report today arguing on behalf of a balanced approach to copyright enforcement, a carrot and stick (CDT Proposes Balanced Framework for Online Copyright Protection). via Constitutional Code, which has many worthwhile... 5945@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-06-07T21:39:31-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/25/senate_judiciary_ip_subcommitee_hearing_on_intl_copyright_infringement.php Well, I listened to the nearly two hours of generally dull testimony for today's Senate hearing on intellectual property (Notice of Subcommitee Hearing: Piracy of Intellectual Property). I suffered so that you didn't have to. The hearing was chaired by... 5749@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-05-25T14:53:58-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/04/06/cnet_on_possible_judicial_inducement_test.php C|Net News' John Borland has a brief article on the possibility that the Supreme Court may craft some sort of inducement test in the Grokster case (Supreme Court mulls file-swap 'pushers'). Unfortunately, the article doesn't really provide any context as... 5547@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-04-06T11:54:18-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/03/15/slate_induces_copyright_violations.php Slate has published another good article by tech journalist Paul Boutin, who advocates HTML annotation software for bloggers (Newsmashing: The new technique that will change blogging forever). Basically, you would be able to copy a webpage, then annotate directly on... 5519@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-03-15T15:10:43-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/07/final_induce_act_iica_draft_from_copyright_interests_induce_dead_for_now.php 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,... 5469@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-07T22:47:41-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/07/no_induce_act_iica_markup_tomorrow.php Good news. A source familiar with the ongoing Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA aka INDUCE Act) drafting process informs me that the Judiciary Committee will not markup the INDUCE Act tomorrow, ostensibly in order to deal with homeland security... 5468@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-07T03:55:08-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/06/sen_hatch_pushing_induce_act_iica_forward_despite_no_consensus_plus_cdt_speaks_out.php It is looking more and more likely that Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is going to try to get something passed tomorrow despite heavy opposition from technology and consumer groups. Will the Judiciary Committee cravenly accept such an attack on innovation... 5467@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-06T22:22:37-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/06/technology_and_consumer_groups_oppose_induce_act_iica_markup.php As I noted earlier, the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA aka INDUCE Act) negotations have failed (Secret INDUCE Act (IICA) Negotiations Fail!). Now, two letters have been sent to the Senate asking that there be no markup as there... 5466@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-06T21:34:33-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/06/secret_induce_act_iica_negotiations_fail.php Reports are that no final compromise was reached on the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act (IICA aka INDUCE Act). Apparently, negotiations broke down on codifying the Betamax decision as well as copyright holders arguing for broader language. Whether this means... 5464@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-06T20:16:44-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/04/rumors_continue_to_fly_around_new_induce_act_iica_draft.php According to anonymous reports, our betters continue to develop internet innovation policy behind closed doors. Apparently, the open transparent processes that led to the development of the internet are not appropriate to the development of innovation policy. Supposedly, the revised... 5460@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-04T21:57:10-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/04/is_there_a_new_induce_act_iica_draft.php Rumor is that there is a new INDUCE Act (IICA) draft available, but the participants have been sworn to keep it quiet while they show it to their clients. Of course, the clients of the US Senate, aka the people... 5458@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-04T01:48:32-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/10/01/burning_the_midnight_oil_to_create_a_new_induce_act_iica.php Well, no version of the INDUCE Act (IICA) has come out of Sen. Orrin Hatch's patent-pending throw some of the interested parties in a room and not let them out until there is a compromise innovation policy development process. The... 5457@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-10-01T22:24:56-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/09/30/allstar_drafting_team_to_create_new_induce_act_iica_by_close_of_business_tomorrow.php According to Public Knowledge:An all-star game of private sector legislative drafters will start at 10:30 tomorrow. There will be representatives from consumer electronics, Verizon, CDT, and others on our team and from the usual suspects on the other team. They... 5455@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-09-30T23:13:35-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/09/30/report_from_the_induce_act_iica_negotiations.php Apparently, Sen. Orrin Hatch's staff believes that the Senate Judiciary Committee would be criticized if forwarded a copyright bill and criticized if it didn't. Criticized by who? The citizens of Utah? Are the people of Utah pushing ths bill? Will... 5454@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-09-30T22:17:11-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/09/30/content_industries_meet_with_sen_hatch_prior_to_induce_act_iica_negotiation.php Yesterday I noted that instead of a regular bill "markup" there was going to be a massive negotiation among some of the stakeholders regarding the INDUCE Act (IICA) (INDUCE Act (IICA) Massive Negotiation Session Tomorrow). Today, an anonymous source familiar... 5453@http://importance.corante.com/ INDUCE Act 2004-09-30T19:51:21-08:00