Washington Office Events Issues Civil Liberties, Intellectual Freedom and Privacy ... Issues Congress Needs To Hear From You NOW! H.R. 107: Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2003 H.R. 4077: Piracy and Deterrence and Education Act of 2004 Click on the "Action" button to go to learn more. Last update: 24 May To get the text of Senate or House bills, go to the "Thomas" Web site: http://thomas.loc.gov ], and enter the bill number in the Search window. top May 18, 2004: AFFECT sends a letter to the sponsor of the UCITA legislation in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Bill # 25-0198 was introduced by Sen. Lorraine Berry as part of an omnibus crime bill. http://www.ucita.com/pdf/Virginislandltr.pdf May 13: testimony pdf file March 31: March 31: March 29: ALA, ARL, AALL and SLA sent comments to the U.S. Trade Representative regarding the proposed U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.- Panama Free Trade Agreement. [See: Bi-Lateral Free Trade Agreements March 26: Sen. Biden (DE-D) introduced S. 2242, the "Anticounterfeiting Act of 2004," a bill that prohibits trafficking in illicit authentication features, counterfeit documentation and packaging that is attached to or embedded in a record, CD, computer program, motion picture or other audiovisual work or its packaging. This bill is the 2004 version of a similar bill introduced by Sen. Biden in 2003 (S. 731) and is supported by the motion picture and recording industries. March 25: March 2: Rep. Stearns (R-FL) and 18 co-sponsors introduced H.R. 3872, the Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004, a new version of database protection legislation. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the alternative bill and unfavorably reported out H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act that the House Judiciary Committee had already favorably recommended. [See ALAWON | |
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