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+-   Controversial Section of PRO-IP Act Cut-> on Thursday March 06 2008, @04:55PM I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

Submitted by I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property on Thursday March 06 2008, @04:55PM
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Rep. Berman (D-CA) has removed the controversial section 104 from his PRO-IP Act. That section would have multiplied the already excessive statutory damages for infringement in the case of compilations, making the damages for infringing upon the copyrights of a single average CD rise into the millions of dollars. This change came after proponents of the amendment were unable to cite even one case where the statutory damages recovered were insufficient. But don't let the article fool you into thinking that the PRO-IP Act is no longer controversial now that this one section is gone, the act still creates copyright cops who are authorized to seize people's computers."
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