WIRED on the new INDUCE Act draft
IICA is still overbroad. It's still written to overturn the Betamax doctrine.
Go read the rest. WIRED: New Induce Act Alarms FoesCD burners, jukebox programs and Wi-Fi routers are just a few of the technologies that could be threatened under a new version of the Induce Act, critics say. Like the first version of the controversial bill -- which is championed by the music and movie industries -- the latest language says that a company that intentionally induces a person to infringe copyright is liable.
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"Any technology that allows dissemination is still completely threatened by this bill," said Jason Schultz, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Even if you have nothing in your business model that has anything to do with infringement, you can still be held liable for all of your users who do infringe."
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