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For the past four years, my “Legally Speaking” columns have warned about overbroad and imbalanced proposals for digital copyright, database protection, and licensing of information legislation. Since I wrote my last column on these issues there have been some important developments. As to each, there is some good news and some bad news. One important development was the passing of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by the U.S. Congress in September 1998. The good news is that the bill enacted was considerably more balanced than the legislation initially proposed by the Clinton administration. The bad news is that the bill still goes too far in regulating legitimate activities related to bypassing technical protection systems as well as technologies that can be used for such purposes. A second development was the passage of the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act by the U.S. House of Representatives. This bill would have created a new form of intellectual property protection for the contents of databases along lines similar to the European Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases. The best news about this development is that the U.S. Senate came to be aware of substantial broad-based opposition to the approach of the House bill and chose not to move forward with that legislation. As a result, free-

Good news and bad news on the intellectual property front