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Biden Promises 'Right Person' As Copyright Czar
Hugh Pickens writes "Vice President Joe Biden lauded Hollywood at a gala dinner in Washington, assailed movie piracy, and promised film executives that the Obama administration would pick 'the right person' as its copyright czar. Biden warned of the harms of piracy at the private event organized by the Motion Picture Association of America in the sumptuous, newly renovated Great Hall of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. 'It's pure theft, stolen from the artists and quite frankly from the American people as consequence of loss of jobs and as a consequence of loss of income,' Biden said, according to a White House pool report. Biden addressed President Obama's forthcoming decision about who will be named the intellectual-property enforcement coordinator, better known as the copyright czar. Under a law approved by the US Congress last October, Obama is required to appoint someone to coordinate the administration's IP enforcement efforts and prepare annual reports. Copyright industry lobbyists sent a letter to the president asking him to pick someone sympathetic to their concerns, while groups that would curb copyright law sent their own letter (PDF) urging the opposite approach. We 'will find the right person for intellectual property czar,' Biden said."
There were, however, kommissars and that is what USian "czars" are.
You miss again. A "commissar" - when the title was still used (which was pretty much during Lenin & Stalin), it indicated a general position of authority on any level in the Party. Not just in the army, though those are by far the best known, but anywhere, up to the ministers (who were "people's commissars").
USian "czars" are really just minor ministers, so I guess you could say it's relevant. But the word hasn't been used in that sense in the USSR for at least its last 40 years.
IDIOTS: invade and colonise someone else's country and see what happens.