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 | | As Michael Geist writes, "U.S. broadcasters and the MPAA have actively lobbied for the creation of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations. |
 | | And in the mean time, we have the proposed Induce Act, (More)which could have the effect of making Apple responsible for illegal uses of the iPod, or TiVo responsible for illegal recording of television broadcasts (TiVo, interestingly, is reported to be making a deal with Netflix to offer movies on demand). |
 | | The author also comments (correctly) that copyright has moved from the realm of the commercial into the personal - and that, therefore, "activities of millions of individuals — including judges — who will increasingly question standards of what is right and wrong through the lens of their own actions." As it should be. |
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