The Mashup

Pat Leahy used to have two different bills aimed at tilting the legal playing field more firmly in the direction of large for-profit content producers that he's now folding into a single larger bill. As you would expect, this isn't a step that ameliorates copyright reformers' serious concerns about some provisions of these bills.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/07/the-mashup/49490/