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Last December, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy helped push Congress into passing a provision that seemed to take dead aim at Rupert Murdoch. At the time, Murdoch was benefiting from temporary waivers of a Federal Communications Commission regulation that prohibits a firm from owning a newspaper and a TV station in...
Meanwhile, Congress was moving closer to slapping sanctions on Toshiba, the Japanese electronics giant, because it illegally sold the Soviets high-tech equipment used to make submarine propellers. A congressional committee working on a huge trade bill reportedly agreed to ban for three years the importation of machine tools and...
Earlier this week Congress rightly overturned Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act, the primary provision of which suspends federal funds from any institution that discriminates. This act strengthens the government's commitment and ability to ensure equality for its citizens. It is a reassuring sign at a...
One of the proposals, the Visual Artists Rights Bill, would also provide a 7% resale royalty on some art works fetching $1,000 or more. In this age of the $53.9 million Van Gogh, that would allow artists whose works increase in value -- always just a fraction of the profession...
Current American law generally gives control over most kinds of property to its owner -- an auto manufacturer, for instance, cannot tell buyers what to do with their cars. Yet every instinct says that art is no ordinary property. The proposals before Congress place it in a separate category by turning...