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The LawMeme Reader's Guide to Ernie Miller's Guide to the INDUCE Act
Posted by James Grimmelmann on Thursday, July 15 @ 02:19:36 EDT Copyright
Ernie Miller wears many blogging hats. Over at The Importance Of, he's been blogging up an incredible storm about S. 2560, the Act Formerly Known as the INDUCE Act, now called the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act. ("Infringement" is singular, but "Copyrights" is plural. Go figure.)

His coverage matters to lawyers, techies, copyfighters, and consumers. That is, everyone. Ignore it at your peril. The IICA is one of the most dangerously misguided and malicious pieces of technology legislation to rear its ugly head in the last decade. Ernie's obsessively detailed articles are a powerful indictment of a bad idea. I have only one thing to add to what Ernie is saying: an index.

Look inside for the LawMeme Reader's Guide to Ernie Miller's Guide to the INDUCE Act.

First, there are Ernie's annotations of key pro-INDUCE texts:

Second, there are are his analyses of the (often frightening) interactions of INDUCE with other provisions of copyright law:

Third, there's Hatch's Hit List (modelled on Ed Felten's Fritz's Hit List), a collection of useful technologies that INDUCE would outlaw. (There would be plenty more that the bill's text would ban, if they weren't so entrenched in our society that we no longer see the infringement, only the usefulness.)
  1. WiFi Car Stereos
  2. 3D Printers
  3. AM/FM Transmitters
  4. Arcade Emulators
  5. Automatic Online Translators
  6. Legos
  7. VOIP
  8. Worth1000 Photoshop Contests
  9. Darknets
  10. 3D Scanners
  11. Virtual Jigsaw Puzzles
  12. FreeCache
  13. Disaster Relief Communication Systems
  14. Deepnet Explorer
  15. Ringtone Remixers
  16. The New York Times
  17. Cellphones with Hard Drives
  18. Universal Turing Machine
  19. Battle Torrent
  20. P2P Congress
  21. TiVo to Go

Fourth, he's been working as a clearinghouse for important INDUCE coverage elsewhere on the Web:

And finally, there are a few posts that don't fit into any of the other categories but raise important issues nonetheless:

On stories like this, it's easy to get lost in a swirl of "Bad! Worse! Worst!" blog posts from a dozen different blogs linking the same basic story, or to lose track of the bill as it scuttles through the legislative process. The antidote -- well, an antidote, at least -- is in-depth analysis and on-going coverage. Ernie's been flooding the zone on INDUCE and keeping the focus where it belongs: on a bad bill.

UPDATE July 15, 11:45 AM: Added two more stories from the series.

UPDATE July 15, 2:20 PM: Added three INDUCE stories from Copyfight.

UPDATE July 16, 12:05 AM: There's no stopping Ernie. Two more stories.

UPDATE July 18, 4:30 PM: Two more short links to other coverage.

UPDATE July 19, 5:15 PM: Another Hatch's Hit List and another short link.

UPDATE July 22 5:30 PM: Nine (!) more pieces: seven links to other coverage and two more entries on Hatch's Hit List.

UPDATE July 26 12:55 PM: Another eight or nine, depending on how you count.

UPDATE August 3 1:35 PM: Seventeen more, including seven items on Hatch's Hit List.

UPDATE August 8 4:55 PM: Slow week: four more.

 
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Re: The LawMeme Reader's Guide to Ernie Miller's Guide to the INDUCE Act (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, July 15 @ 09:18:23 EDT
The Hatch List is simply brilliant.


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