At last count, the Lobby Days team had corralled three new co-sponsors to HR 550, along with even more promises of support. Added to the co-sponsorship list are Representative Jim Leach (R-IA), Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA), and Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA).
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Sometimes, all you need to do is ask. Aids to Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) informed Cambridge resident Carolyn Fuller and other citizen-lobbyists the Lynch would likely sign onto HR 550 by the end of the day. Lynch supported the bill, they said, but he had uninentionally let the question...

EFF has long been a critic of the proposed WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, and now we have a particularly vivid example of how the treaty imperils the public domain.
The Smithsonian Institution recently announced a joint venture with Showtime that gives the cable TV network exclusive commercial access to...

As the recording industry's doom and gloom rhetoric continues in the face of ever increasing file sharing, the RIAA's own statistics [PDF] tell a much different story. Wired's Chris Anderson examined the recently published 2005 sales stats and found that "2005 may have been more profitable than 2004."...

A prediction: the world of copyright law is about to collide with the world of digital indexing and search, and the collision will be among the most important digital copyright issues of the next several years.
A few weeks ago, the major movie studios filed a lawsuit against...