{"id":2942,"date":"2005-01-19T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/01\/19\/cali-induce-bill\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T11:48:46","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T15:48:46","slug":"cali-induce-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/01\/19\/cali-induce-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Cali INDUCE Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1015'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>News of Senator Murray&#8217;s California INDUCE-like bill is <A href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000752.html\">making<\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/State+bill+could+cripple+P2P\/2100-1028_3-5540937.html?tag=nefd.top\">the<\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/copyfight\/archives\/032463.php\">rounds.<\/A>&nbsp; Murray says that the MPAA\/RIAA\/et al had nothing to do with it.&nbsp; Uh huh.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>It seems like the RIAA\/MPAA\/whichever organization is behind this is throwing a million darts, hoping just one sticks.&nbsp; Congress, Supreme Court, the states &#8211; doesn&#8217;t matter which one&nbsp;steps in&nbsp;as long as they get their P2P liability standard enacted somewhere.&nbsp; At the same time, this bill seems so broadly drafted, so obviously bad that they can&#8217;t seriously think it will pass.&nbsp; Maybe this is just the baseline, but, given what happened with INDUCE, do they really want to start that debate again in the state of Silicon Valley?&nbsp; If they don&#8217;t take the bill&#8217;s chances seriously, is this just a way of wasting other organizations&#8217; resources?&nbsp; Lessig <A href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/002206.shtml#002206\">suggested<\/A> that INDUCE was intended as a distraction, to move through the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/issues\/hr2391\">IP Protection Act.<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Also, re: Professor Felten&#8217;s question about &#8220;reasonable person&#8221; standards, see Professor Solum&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/lsolum.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_09_01_lsolum_archive.html#109621328328058127\">legal theory lexicon post for a&nbsp;clear, simple discussion.<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of Senator Murray&#8217;s California INDUCE-like bill is making the rounds.&nbsp; Murray says that the MPAA\/RIAA\/et al had nothing to do with it.&nbsp; Uh huh. It seems like the RIAA\/MPAA\/whichever organization is behind this is throwing a million darts, hoping just one sticks.&nbsp; Congress, Supreme Court, the states &#8211; doesn&#8217;t matter which one&nbsp;steps in&nbsp;as long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}