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Senate Judiciary Passes Intellectual Property Bills

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 30, 2004 - 3:07am.
Washington -- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a number of intellectual property-related bills, which will now be voted on by the entire Senate. Among them is a bill that would make it a crime to bring a camcorder into a movie theater for the purpose of pirating a movie; a similar bill passed in California saw its first arrests earlier this month and charges filed on Thursday. Another bill would expand the authority of the U.S. Justice Dept. in copyright infringement prosecutions, enabling it to file civil lawsuits against suspected pirates instead of solely criminal charges.
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