Posted on 11/20/2007 4:33:53 PM PST by abt87
A coalition of entertainment and publishing industry heavyweights would like to see the 2008 presidential candidates champion "meaningful copyright protection" in their policy platforms.
The requests came Tuesday in the form of a letter (PDF) and a questionnaire (PDF), dispatched by the Washington-based Copyright Alliance to 17 candidates vying for Democratic or Republican nominations next year. The group has requested responses to its questionnaire by early January of next year and plans to make the answers public.
In a conference call with reporters Tuesday afternoon, Ross said the group also intends to hold briefings with presidential campaigns about its copyright priorities, but it's not "in the endorsement game," although individual alliance members may choose to take that step.
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Republicans can make great inroads with younger folks by being on the right side of this. Dunno if they’re smart enough (any of them) to do that though.
The entertainment industry needs to grow up. They need to embrace new technology, not shun it and attempt to pigeonhole everything into some dead paradigm. Somewhere along the way they forgot that if your business doesn’t change with the times, it withers and dies. It’s true for any business.
Oh sure, be a brave presidential candidate and come out in favor of “big business” and be all for suing grandma’s and mom’s and dad’s for what their kids download.
Real smart.....
Nope. Won’t happen.
But they will once in office support these sue happy clowns.
I’m all for reasonable exclusive rights to created content, protected by the courts, in exchange for that content becoming the public domain after a short number of years.
The present legalistic scenario is the author’s lifetime plus seventy years.
Make it fifteen years; long enough to make a profit off the original work, short enough to actually make it an exchange. Either that, or simply disband the copyright office if no one is willing to make this exchange as conceptualized by the founding fathers.
Both the RIAA and MPAA need to be subject to antitrust proceedings.
this makes me sick.
Talk about a scary cult running the country...
Emphasis on "present". Big Media gets congress to extend this routinely whenever some of the big properties are about to expire. The Supreme Court has basicly ruled that the contitiutional protection of "limited copyrights" means any time frame that isn't perpetual. Much better gig than patents.
My campaign plank would be that the RIAA and the MPAA should die a horrible death and that every lawyer and executive working for them would be sent to Guantanamo, never to be seen again.
A candidate looking to lock up some extra votes should respond with a polite variation on “Kiss My @$$” (or, better yet, simply with “Kiss My @$$”).
And when they strong arm operating system makers into draconian DRM, you get VISTA. Pure Basura.
Still Thinking urges the RIAA and MPAA to bite his fat hiary white azz.
Consider my version. ;-)
LOL, like protecting the music industry is of national interest.
And what a commercial success that’s been! If they run true to form, next they press for legislation from Hollings (D-Disney) and others to make it illegal not to run Vis-f’ed-up-duh.
“A candidate looking to lock up some extra votes should respond with a polite variation on “Kiss My @$$””
Could he (or she) use “Kiss mah grits!” or was that copyrighted back in the 1970s?
I would probably no vote for any candidate that signed on to help the RIAA go after music fans.
Wasn't much of a President, either.
Good point. Everyone is content to let truly strategic industries like steel and manufacturing die, but we can’t let those guys that press CD’s full of misogynistic [c]rap post a quarterly loss!
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