Alberto Gonzales

Gonzales Copyright Bill Would Criminalize "Attempted" Infringement

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 15, 2007 - 1:53pm.

Washington - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has proposed a new bill that would make "attempted" copyright infringement of intellectual property a crime, CNET News.com reported.

CNET News.com: Gonzales Calls for Mandatory Web Labeling Law

Authored by dmw on April 21, 2006 - 4:06pm.

San Francisco - CNET News.com on Thursday reported that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales remarked at an event that a mandatory rating system will "prevent people from inadvertently stumbling across pornographic images on the Internet". The Bush administration's proposal, called the Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006, would require commercial websites to place warning labels, to be developed by the FTC, on sexually explicit pages, or risk imprisonment of up to five years. The proposal also addresses website operators that mislead visitors about the content of their sites in search engines results. Historically, online publishers have been resistant to self-imposed rating systems due to the vague and imprecise nature of content labeling and filtering.