INDUCE: Call for Copyright Advice
The Senate is asking [pdf] the Copyright Office for advice on the Induce Act.
“Specifically, we would like your assistance in identifying key concerns that have been raised about S. 2650 and serving as our principal copyright adviser in a series of meetings designed to resolve any remaining issues.”
These should be interesting meetings. They may turn out to be similar to the roundtables that Rep. Tauzin held during the summer of 2002 at which he tried to convince industry representatives to agree to adoption of content marking technology that would be implemented by consumer electronics devices. Tauzin followed these roundtables by floating a broad draft bill. The Tauzin draft would have given the FCC authority to mandate recognition of a “broadcast flag” by all digital devices that were capable of receiving a digital television signal, and to require that no equipment with analog outputs would be manufactured after July 1, 2005.
It was never introduced.
Here, by contrast, there is already a draft bill out on the table — and a lot of legitimate concerns have been raised about it. Maybe these meetings will serve to assuage these concerns. We'll see.
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