Trying to protect the author's rights? HAH! So you think the government will protect the rights of authors who are whistleblowers who expose government wrongdoing/corruption?
Anything that is critical of government will get flagged and tied up in red tape. Government is trying to protect government, they aren't trying to protect authors rights and if you actually were an author you'd realize that. Try to publish something critical of government (fully referenced of course) with these laws and see just how much they respect your rights as an author.