[FC-discuss] House passes COAA with p2p provisions intact

[Gavin Baker]

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To be frank I don't even know if there's a Senate companion, if the
companion has this provision, or at what stage of the process the
companion is at. Somebody would need to talk to someone who knows and
hopefully, if it hasn't been passed in committee yet, to introduce an
amendment in markup. Otherwise you try to amend on the floor, or hold up
the bill from ever being heard (which won't be popular if there are
other reasons to like the bill).

Elizabeth Stark wrote:
| Right, and part of the problem in fighting against this bill is that
| it's *so* long and this is just one small provision, so many people may
| overlook it or vote for it anyway because they like the rest of the bill.
|
| I guess the question is how we get someone to propose a change to this
| specific section...
|
| On Feb 10, 2008 6:20 PM, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com
| <mailto:gavin at gavinbaker.com>> wrote:
|
| Right, there are some provisions that should help control textbook
| costs, etc. It's gotta be a fairly decent bill for the House to vote so
| overwhelmingly for it. That's why it's so nefarious to stick something
| like this in, too.
|
| Fred Benenson wrote:
| | The general feeling is that other sections of the bill are not as
| bad as
| | the onedealing with "digital theft" -- That campuses notify and
| explain
| | copyright infringement and so on.
| |
| | My understanding is that there are also other sections that deal with
| | fair pricing of text books and so on.
| |
| | On Feb 10, 2008 2:30 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <me at acm.jhu.edu
| <mailto:me at acm.jhu.edu>
| | <mailto:me at acm.jhu.edu <mailto:me at acm.jhu.edu>>> wrote:
| |
| |     Have any of you looked at the rest of this bill for what
| effects it
| |     might contain, good or bad? The copy I have here is 747 (!!)
| pages...
| |
| |     --
| |     -vs
| |
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| |     you cannot for ever fence it out. -JRR Tolkien
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