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The article discusses the central government's plan to introduce a new bill to regulate the registration of digital news media, bringing them under the same framework as newspapers. The proposed bill will replace the existing colonial-era legislation, requiring digital news platforms to register themselves with the Press Registrar General, similar to newspapers.

The article reports that social media intermediaries such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google will meet Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's officials to highlight a lack of standard operating procedure (SOP) on Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code.

The article reports on the reasons why India's new regime for intermediary liability and digital media regulation will have adverse effects to the open internet.

This article reports that the U.S. motion picture industry wants the lawmakers of the Congress to require all video jacks on computers and televisions to use a government-approved protection technology. They scored one powerful victory in June, when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that file-sharing services like Grokster and KaZaA could be held responsible for the copyright crimes of their users. But they were defeated in May, when the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that the Federal Communications Commission did not have jurisdiction to impose an anti-piracy technology that forced digital television manufacturers to redesign equipment and scramble digital broadcasters. Radio broadcasters doing digital, or high-definition, radio should also have to live by content-protection rules.

Reports on a growing movement among U.S. consumer activist groups to oppose fair-use legislation introduced by Senate Commerce Chairman Ernest Hollings that would mandate a technological solution to digital content piracy. Motion Picture Association of America's support of the bill; Rights that consumer groups want to ensure; Provisions of the Hollings bill; Steps taken by consumer groups to halt the bill's progress.

Offers observations on the efforts of entertainment industries and others to limit the rights of consumers to use legally purchased copyrighted materials for noncommercial purposes. Reasons for this, including the impact of digital music and video piracy on these industries; Possible negative consequences of these limitations; How the sound recording and other industries would utilize copy-protection technology; Discussion of various United States copyright laws.