Music industry wants $1.5m CD copying fines02.02.2008 02:17 Computers The music industry has been testifying in a case before the US House of Representatives which could impose a $1.5m fine for copying a CD.
The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007 is currently at the committee stage. The proposed legislation seeks to increase the fines for copying or counterfeiting music, and would criminalise the copying of individual CD tracks. This would make the fine for copying a 10-track CD as much as $1.5m. William Patry, senior copyright counsel at Google, and a former copyright counsel to the House of Representatives, slammed the legislation as "the most outrageously gluttonous intellectual property bill ever introduced in the US". "Throughout his career as the MPAA's chief lobbyist, Jack Valenti skilfully and successfully employed moral panics and folk devils before Congress in an effort to gain increased copyright protection," he said. "As metaphors, Valenti's moral panics provided the means by which busy and sympathetic members of Congress could appear to be engaged in sober reasoning." Source: techzonez.comwww.alllee.com |
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