Lawmakers: Keep your tunes to yourself

Legislators are readying a bill that could sharply limit Americans’ rights relating to copying music, taping TV shows, and transferring files through the Internet.

“If you were to take today’s episode of ‘E.R.’ and tape it and give it to your mother, it would be copyright infringement under this bill,” said Jessica Litman, a professor at Wayne State University who specializes in copyright law.