Good News On TIA and Fair Use Rights

2 stories that seem like good news on the legal front for a change.


Senators vow to halt `data mining\’ project says alarm about a Pentagon plan to find terrorists by trolling the electronic records of all Americans, several senators took steps Thursday to rein in the project and halt other “data mining\’\’ efforts until Congress can review the implications on civil liberties.


Fight for your right to copy music, movies urges readers to contact their members of Congress in support of Passage of the Boucher-Doolittle bill–officially called the Digital Media Consumers Rights Act (HR-107) and introduced by Reps. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and John Doolittle, R-Calif.–is vitally important to preserving what\’s known as \”fair use\” as part of U.S. copyright law.