It's called the Intellectual Property Protection Act, and it's coming to a United States Senate near you:
Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record companies and which Congress might try to push through during a lame-duck session that begins this week.
The Senate might vote on the Intellectual Property Protection Act, a comprehensive bill that opponents charge could make many users of peer-to-peer networks, digital-music players and other products criminally liable for copyright infringement. The bill would also undo centuries of "fair use" -- the principle that gives Americans the right to use small samples of the works of others without having to ask permission or pay.
Of course some more clever bloggers than I are already finding ways to get their blogs out without excerpting anything on-site. I'm going to go sign up for lessons now.
UPDATE: It slices it dices but wait there's more:
The bill would also permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed language, viewers would not be allowed to use software or devices to skip commericals or promotional announcements "that would otherwise be performed or displayed before, during or after the performance of the motion picture," like the previews on a DVD.
Basically this means that you'll be allowed to skip sex scenes, but you won't be able to skip commercials after you've TIVO'ed Lost.
And this is from the party of less government?
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