Senate approves FECA

The Senate has approved the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) of 2005 -- a package of copyright bills which includes the camcorder legislation, the Family Movie Act and legislation designed to make it easier for law-enforcement officials to combat the growing problem of music and movies being distributed on file-sharing networks and circulating on the Internet before they are released. FECA also contains a measure to reauthorize an existing program for the preservation of historically and culturally significant films. [Reuters]