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On April 27, 2005 President Bush signed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (Pub.L. 109-9). The Act includes provisions for a federal ban on videotaping in movie theaters, an exemption for technology that allows viewers to edit objectionable material from movies viewed at home, a reauthorization of the National Film Preservation Board and Foundation and an extension of the rights of libraries to copy orphan works.

It appears that a Circuit split is developing on the issue of whether Internet services that transmit network television programs are engaged in a transmission to the public in violation of the networks’ copyrights.