Z:gnu-www-ja-new-monopoly--1d1c6e-Companies that want monopoly p/en

Companies that want monopoly powers to control public use of the information we get from data bases are trying to pass a law this year in the U.S. &mdash; creating, for the first time, a private monopoly over repeating publicly known information. They are using the &ldquo;good bill, bad bill&rdquo; method; the &ldquo;bad&rdquo; bill is HR 354; the &ldquo;good&rdquo; bill is HR 1858.