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Paul Sweeting is the editor of ContentAgenda.com and a columnist for Video Business. He has covered the home entertainment industries since 1985 for Billboard, Variety, Publishers Weekly and other leading business publications. He is based in Washington, DC.


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PRO-IP bill faces first test - March 6, 2008

The House intellectual property subcommittee will mark up the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act (HR4279) this morning and Media Wonk will have a full report after the meeting. Both subcommittee chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) and full Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) are sponsors of the bill so it is expected to pass the subcommittee handily.

Supporters of the bill expressed some fears going into the markup that Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) might try to attach some or all of his HR1201 bill softening aspects of the DMCA as an amendment to the PRO-IP Act.  Boucher is a candidate to take over the IP subcommittee next year if Berman moves on as expected to take over the full Foreign Affairs Committee.

More later.


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