[Ecommerce] Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004

[Manon Ress]

For colleagues who could not make it to Rayburn this morning:
The Committee on Energy and Commerce met in OPEN MARKUP SESSION on March
3, 2004, at 11:00 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House
Office Building to reorganize the Committee and mark up a number of
bills see http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Markups/03032004markup1225.htm

Re the database protection bills (I guess I went for the "killing" but
many people have been involved from public interest community (ALA,
National Academy of Sciences) and industry (USCC,Verizon, AT&T, AOL) and
did a good job):

The Energy and Commerce Committee now chaired by Barton will report
against H.R. 3261, the Database and Collections of Information
Misappropriation Act (going too far, giving additional tools to IP
owners, chilling information flow with fear of litigation, etc...)
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but favorably for the Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004 *** H.
R. 3872 (the "narrow" bill see:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:1:./temp/~c108hzkAiI::)
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Manon
PS
Rep. Boucher mentioned the bad experience with EU Directive on database
and the resulting high volume of litigations ("100 cases"). ...any more
details on that are welcome

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Manon Anne Ress
Consumer Project on Technology
www.cptech.org
PO Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
manon.ress@cptech.org, voice: 1.202.387.8030, fax: 1.202.234.5176