April 24, 2006

Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill

A proposed copyright law being discussed in Congress would expand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections. Jessica Litman, an expert on copyright law at Wayne State University , views expansion of the act as significant. "If Sony had decided to stand on its rights and either McAfee or Norton Antivirus had tried to remove the rootkit from my hard drive, we'd all be violating this expanded definition," she pointed out.

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