US Congress Next in Copyright Tiffs

In what can only be bad news, Wired is predicting a grim battle in Congress next year as a result of the ongoing Napster lawsuit. They Say the loser of the Napster case will be inmportant to this area of law.
The two-day international intellectual property conference was held last week.


\”We must protect the rights of the creator,\” Hatch said. \”But we cannot, in the name of copyright, unduly burden consumers and the promising technology the Internet presents to all of us.\”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch