Senate Passes Scaled-Back Copyright Bill

The Senate passed a scaled-back version of a controversial copyright bill, keeping a provision that imposes severe penalties on people caught with camcorders in movie theaters but scrapping other provisions that copyright-reform activists had criticized. The Senate met and passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2004, or SB3021, a revised version of the Intellectual Property Protection Act (HR2391), which had cobbled together a handful of copyright-related bills.