Marybeth Peters makes predictions

Marybeth Peters, the U.S. register of copyrights, makes some predictions about what copyright bills will and will not be passed during the lame duck Congress' rush to enact a final bunch of legislation before breaking for the holidays:

"I don't think you'll ever see database protection," said Peters...
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"Something else you won't see this year is something known as the Induce Act."
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The database bill would create a new intellectual property right for collections of information, while the Induce Act would prohibit inducing anyone to violate copyright law.
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Peters also said that an unrelated huge copyright bill, called the Intellectual Property Protection Act (IPPA), had even odds of being enacted before Congress left town. "Parts of this bill are extremely, extremely controversial," Peters said. "There's a 50-50 chance as I understand it that this bill could go (forward)."

Article here - ZDNet: Anti-P2P bill may slip past legislative rush