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InternetNews
December 6, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
New Bill Stiffens File-Sharing Penalties The U.S. House of Representatives is edging closer to laying out harsher penalties and stepping up enforcement for the illegal sharing of music and movies.   |
InternetNews
September 29, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Toughens Penalties on P2Ps Bill calls for criminal penalties of up to five years for willfully distributing copyrighted works. |
InternetNews
May 15, 2007
Roy Mark |
More Jail Time For Copyright Crooks? Attorney General Alberto Gonzales sent legislation to Capitol Hill Monday that would increase jail time for repeat offenders of copyright laws. |
InternetNews
November 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
Congress Slashes Hollywood's Copyright Wish List Revised legislation drops controversial copyright provisions supported by the movie and recording industries. |
Home Theater
October 14, 2008 |
Another Bad Copyright Law Passes The newly signed Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act escalates penalties for copyright infringement. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2005
Roy Mark |
Attorney General Seeking Tougher IP Laws Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed new legislation today that would strengthen penalties for copyright infringement, expand intellectual property protection and add critical enforcement tools. |
Information Today
December 31, 2007
George H. Pike |
Congress Proposes to Enhance IP Enforcement and Penalties The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act, H.R. 4279, proposes a number of steps to strengthen the enforcement of copyright, trademark, and patent laws and to increase criminal and civil penalties for copyright infringement. |
Entrepreneur
June 2006
Jane Easter Bahls |
Hitting Hard Piracy laws just got tougher. |
InternetNews
April 1, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Panel Endorses P2P Criminal Penalties Judiciary subcommittee passes legislation sanctioning prison time for suspects caught trading 1,000 or more copyrighted files online. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2005
Roy Mark |
Content-Skipping Bill Headed For Law Lawmakers approve legislation to permit companies to sell filtering technology that skips ads, violence and obscene content in movies. |
InternetNews
April 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
China, Russia Top International Piracy List China and Russia's "lack of political will" put the two countries at the top of a congressional group's 2006 International Piracy Watch List. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Hollywood Congressman Goes Global to Nix Piracy Rep. Berman announces a new effort to take the piracy fight worldwide. |
Home Theater
May 17, 2007 |
'Attempted Copyright Crimes' Law Proposed Copying music or movies? Don't even think about it, says attorney general Alberto Gonzales. He's supporting a new law that would make even attempting copyright infringement a new federal offense. |
IndustryWeek
May 20, 2010 |
Counterfeiting, Piracy Persist on a Global Scale U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls for legislation to rein in offenders. |
InternetNews
October 14, 2008 |
President Signs Tough New Anti-Piracy Law President Bush on Monday signed into law the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act, which provides stiffer penalties for breaching intellectual property. |
PC Magazine
January 10, 2007
Aaron Dalton |
Washington's Net Change How the Democrat-controlled Congress could affect technology legislation. |
InternetNews
June 9, 2009
Dan Muse |
Lawmaker Calls for Rethinking Piracy Fight Rep. Robert Wexler admits shortcomings of efforts to defend intellectual property in what has become a generational struggle. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code. |
Reason
February 2009
David Weigel |
Czar Wars Don't expect an Obama administration to eliminate the new post of intellectual property watchdog |
InternetNews
September 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
Time Running Out on Fed's Tech Agenda CAN-SPAM and nanotech funding aside, the tech industry has seen little legislative success in a Congress consumed with matters of war and national security. |
InternetNews
December 13, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Consumer, Industry Groups Spar Over Piracy Bill PRO IP's supporters testify in Washington that the act will curb counterfeit bags and DVDs. Critics fear it will hurt fair use and new media models. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Panel Gets Tough on Spyware, P2P Piracy Judiciary Committee wants to slam prison door on peer-to-peer music swappers, spyware purveyors. |
InternetNews
October 8, 2004 |
House Toughens Spyware Penalties For the second time in three days, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill, this time adding criminal penalties to tough civil provisions of legislation passed on Tuesday. |
InternetNews
January 12, 2010 |
All Eyes on U.S. Intellectual Property Deal Concerns among some in tech surface as the U.S. negotiates with other countries on copyright infringement policy. |
InternetNews
May 23, 2005
Roy Mark |
House Approves Anti-Spyware Bills The U.S. House plunged ahead in its anti-spyware campaign, passing two different bills targeting unfair or deceptive practices related to spyware. |
InternetNews
January 15, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
New Clashes Await Over Digital Copyright Does government need to do more to curtail piracy, or are media industries threatening the freedom of the Internet? |
InternetNews
May 22, 2007
Roy Mark |
House Passes Anti-Spyware Legislation I SPY Act earns third approval from House. Will Senate reject legislation for third time? |
Information Today
October 20, 2003
George H. Pike |
Database Protection Legislation Introduced in Congress On Oct. 8, 2003, the ongoing debate over the need for database protection returned to the floor of Congress with the introduction of House Bill 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Will Copyright Alliance's Wax Trigger YouTube's Wane? YouTubes of the world be warned. This coalition vows to uphold and enforce copyright laws under the First Amendment. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2004
Roy Mark |
Fair Use Bill Gains New Momentum House Energy and Commerce chairman endorses bill to expand consumer rights under the DMCA. |
Information Today
November 28, 2011
George H. Pike |
Controversy Surrounds Stop Online Piracy Act as Mark-Up Approaches The Stop Online Piracy Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. A companion bill to the previously introduced PROTECT-IP Act, SOPA would give both government officials and content owners new authority to go after "rogue websites." |
InternetNews
September 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Delays Induce Act Vote Again Controversial legislation directed at P2P copyright infringement stalls for third consecutive week. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
Jill Jusko |
Counterfeiting, Piracy Continue to Thrive Globally U.S. government, associations, companies remain on the offensive to combat intellectual property theft. |
InternetNews
May 22, 2007
Roy Mark |
A Rocky Road to Patent Reform A member of the House Judiciary Committee overseeing the Patent Reform Act of 2007, said he was optimistic "we'll finally pass patent reform this year." |
Salon.com
April 15, 2002
Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong... |
InternetNews
May 2, 2007
Roy Mark |
I-SPY a Green Light in The House Judiciary Committee sends anti-spyware bill targeting illegal downloads to House floor. |
InternetNews
February 1, 2007
Roy Mark |
House Bill Would Ban Connection Taxes Legislation calls for permanent bar on Internet access taxes. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2004
Roy Mark |
Conservatives Aim to Sink Pirate Act American Conservative Union says Hollywood wants to use the DOJ as its private law firm to sue copyright infringers. |
InternetNews
July 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Plans Data Breach Disclosure Vote Republicans pick weakest of several bills for full floor vote; Davis wants mandatory breach disclosure for federal agencies; Congress poised to create first national Internet database of sex offenders. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2006
Roy Mark |
Lawmakers Bet on New Online Gambling Ban The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act proposes to make it illegal for Americans to use the Internet for gambling and would authorize law enforcement officials to stop credit card payments and other forms of electronic payments. |
D-Lib
June 2006 |
Orphan Works Reasonable people may disagree about how the problem of orphan works should be resolved, but it is inarguable that a solution should be found. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2004
Roy Mark |
USTR Wants More Input on China Piracy United States Trade Representative office says protection of U.S. intellectual property rights is Bush administration's top priority. |
InternetNews
July 20, 2009 |
Music, Software Heads Stump for Tougher IP Laws New economic study highlights important role of industries like software and music and calls attention to rising threat from piracy. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2004
Roy Mark |
Copyright Office Jumps Into P2P Fray Negotiations continuing over Sen. Orrin Hatch's controversial proposal to allow copyright owners to sue P2P networks. |
InternetNews
July 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
House OKs Stronger Online Child Protections Wide-ranging legislation targets persons deceptively luring children to sex sites. |
Reason
July 2001
Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
InternetNews
November 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
'Fair Use' Becomes Fair Game in House U.S. lawmakers struggle to balance consumer rights with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
InternetNews
December 8, 2006
Roy Mark |
Senators Want More Protection For Social Networks Proposed legislation would require registered sex offenders to submit e-mail addresses to authorities. |
CIO
July 1, 2005
Elana Varon |
$33 Billion-Gone! 35% of all software installed on the world's personal computers is pirated, according to a global study. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Senate Stalls Swapping Bill U.S. Judiciary Committee grants file swipers a reprieve. |
