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."

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Re:Not the good professor

[symbolset]

erg... "in a sea". Catlike typing detected.

MOTD: I am looking for a honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic

Our new Copyright Czar

[Archiviste]

... I heard that Darl McBride is looking for a new job...

I think it's between these 3 guys

[syousef]

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.

Chewing a Lemon

[monkeythug]

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 ...

RMS

[perlhacker14]

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).

Re:Not the good professor

[master5o1]

Come on, be reasonable: Budget of $30, curfew of 10pm.

Re:Not the good professor

[spazdor]

Zombie Jack Valenti is only mildly decomposed by now. I say we use him.

Re:Cory Doctorow, the only man we could trust.

[Malekin]

So he can "unpublish" those he disagrees with and use the office to endlessly pimp his books? No thanks.

Re:Islam is civilized.

[Hognoxious]

Alexander the Great hired millions of muslims to fight wars on his behalf.

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?

Re:Not the good professor

[spazdor]

"Mr. Valenti, what would you say is the most valuable class of intellectual property under your purview?"
"BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS"

Re:Not the good professor

[adavies42]

[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.