Slashdot Mirror
Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar?
seanpark writes "Who will President Elect Obama select for the recently established post of Copyright Czar? Biden has a longstanding relationship with Big Content, and he was partly responsible for the PRO-IP Act that created the position. The short list according to the article includes a few lobbyists (who would likely be disqualified by stringent ethical guidelines) and Lawrence Lessig, who was a technology adviser to the Obama Campaign."
erg... "in a sea". Catlike typing detected.
MOTD: I am looking for a honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic
Help stamp out iliturcy.
... I heard that Darl McBride is looking for a new job...
Only $10? You cheap bastard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b2ivanIV.htm
I vote for Peter the Great. His painting looks friendly and we all know how important image is in a copyright Czar.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Lessig becomes copyright Czsar.
The 'industry' (parasitic, development-repelling middle-men) howl and tear at their hair and eyes. They take to the streets, shirtless, throwing themselves to the tarmac, flailing themselves with mic stands. With raised arms and tear soaked faces they cry for Moolah's mercy.
Obama is taken in by their deceit, takes pity on them, shelves Lessig and appoints their preferred Cszar; the zombie Jack Valenti.
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
I would absolute *love* it if Lessig gets the post.
:-)
...
I can see the faces on the RIAA/MPAA moguls now after they went to all that effort to convince congress to create that post, only to have it backfire on them so badly
Oh, I would laugh so hard
Don't you wish you hadn't wasted 3 seconds of your life reading this sig?
Wouldn't it be apallingly hilarious if RMS was consulted or even appointed? Come on, RMS for Copyright Czar- defender of our freedoms. Seriously though, he does have some good ideas on reform, as seen at (stallman.org).
Come on, be reasonable: Budget of $30, curfew of 10pm.
signature is pants
Zombie Jack Valenti is only mildly decomposed by now. I say we use him.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
I doubt Obama would ever appoint a Canadian citizen to be the US copyright czar.
You do realize, if you ever visit a country under Islamic rule, you'll be beheaded? Who'll chip in with me to buy this AC a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia?
So he can "unpublish" those he disagrees with and use the office to endlessly pimp his books? No thanks.
I'd heard he had some interesting theories on topology, but I never knew he was capable of time travel.
But why did he stop in the dark ages? Why not go further forward and get longbowmen, muskets or even tanks?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Oy vey, times are hard already!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"Mr. Valenti, what would you say is the most valuable class of intellectual property under your purview?"
"BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS"
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
True, working inside an organizational system is different than working outside of one, and like you I don't know if Lessig is an inside player.
But let's be realistic, here - all I want, all I think anybody really wants, is a copyright adviser who actually understands the different facets of copyright and hasn't spent the last decade or more working for Sony/BMG, Disney, or some other obvious media conglomerate.
If this were still the Bush administration we were talking about here, I know the choice would be somebody with big business connections and an agenda; I have more faith in Obama to choose somebody with university connections a fucking brain.
[Y]ou can't meet the extremism of Big Media with moderates willing to compromise. [...] We don't need a moderate - we need somebody who will make dramatic changes [...] .
Sounds like another vote for RMS to me.
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
Actually, based on some of the other picks (Larry Summers, Hillary Clinton), I'm going to guess it'll be Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movie.
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."