January 19, 2005
Cali INDUCE Bill
News of Senator Murray’s California INDUCE-like bill is making the rounds. Murray says that the MPAA/RIAA/et al had nothing to do with it. Uh huh.
It seems like the RIAA/MPAA/whichever organization is behind this is throwing a million darts, hoping just one sticks. Congress, Supreme Court, the states – doesn’t matter which one steps in as long as they get their P2P liability standard enacted somewhere. At the same time, this bill seems so broadly drafted, so obviously bad that they can’t seriously think it will pass. Maybe this is just the baseline, but, given what happened with INDUCE, do they really want to start that debate again in the state of Silicon Valley? If they don’t take the bill’s chances seriously, is this just a way of wasting other organizations’ resources? Lessig suggested that INDUCE was intended as a distraction, to move through the IP Protection Act.
Also, re: Professor Felten’s question about “reasonable person” standards, see Professor Solum’s legal theory lexicon post for a clear, simple discussion.
Filed by Derek Slater at 11:48 am under General news
3 Comments
thanks for bringing this to my attention…
Thanks for pointing out the Solum piece. I added a mention to my original post.
Woa, when they start trying to ram things through the California legislature, it’s always a bad sign. Any word on what the vote is starting to look like?
God, I wonder if they’ll have the chutzpah to try and take it directly to the voters, as is traditional for right-wing nutballs whose proposals get iced by the CA legislature.