Business Week Notes DMCA, Induce Act’s Chill on Innovation


Heather Green has a great piece in this week’s issue of Business Week on the chilling effect of copyright legislation on research. Here’s a snippet: Scientists like to probe the unknown and pioneer useful technologies. But in the spring of 2001, Edward W. Felten discovered that such efforts aren’t always welcome. A computer scientist at […]

No Compromise Reached on INDUCE, But Its Still Moving


Thanks to David Padgham (and USACM’s spiffy new blog) for pointing out this Wired story with the latest on sputtering talks to reach a compromise on the Induce Act. It appears the tech community and the entertainment industry are still far apart on consensus language for the bill — originally designed to create a new […]