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IP Justice: New white hats
Going by the Verizon case, U.S. courts care more about Draconian copyright protection for Hollywood than privacy for the average American. What an appropriate time for the debut of a new group called IP Justice. Cnet interviewed Executive Director Robin Gross.

“Are there any countries that have views about intellectual properties that you like, and alternatively, which countries have the ‘worst’ IP laws in your view?” Cnet asked her.

“I’ll start with who has the worst IP laws,” she said, “because that’s actually the easiest. It’s the United States. When it comes to the traditional balance we’ve had between copyright and freedom of expression, it’s been completely done away with in the last couple of years. It’s been replaced by a regime where the content industry has total control over what people can do with their e-books, CDs, DVDs and that sort of thing. With the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and subsequent enforcement, the United States has some of the most restrictive views on what people can do with their works.”

True, true, true. With bought politicians in the U.S. so eager to cite other countries’ laws in justifying sellouts to copyright holders, IP Justice should have a positive effect in the States, too. America may be the most Enronesque of nations in the IP field, but like-minded copyright greedsters are everywhere.
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