The Senate failed to act on the Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act, a bill passed by the House of Representatives in March. The bill, a combination of other copyright legislation introduced in the House, included prison sentences of three to 10 years for the electronic distribution of copyrighted works worth more than $1000. The prison sentences could be imposed for willful violations or, in some cases, the distribution of more than 1000 copies of a copyrighted work.
A spokesman for Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas), author of the CREATE Act, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment on Smith's plans for copyright legislation in 2005.
Another copyright bill, the Inducing Infringements of Copyright Act, failed to move out of the Senate Judiciary Committee after Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) couldn't reach a compromise with technology and civil liberties groups that opposed the bill. Critics said the bill, intended to target peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors, was worded so broadly that it would allow the music and movie industries to sue many groups, including venture capitalists who invest in new technologies and journalists who review digital recording products."
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118915,00.asp
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