How the Obama Copyright Policies Might Unfold

An anonymous reader points out a column by James Boyle, who knows a thing or two about copyright, analyzing the Obama Administration's policy choices about intellectual property and high tech. "Traditionally, Democratic administrations take their copyright policy direct from Hollywood and the recording industry. Unfortunately, so do Republican administrations. The capture of regulators by the industry they regulate is nothing new, of course, but in intellectual property there is the added benefit that incumbents can frequently squelch competing technologies and business methods before they ever come into existence. ... The Obama administration's warm embrace of Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley's checkbook, had given some hope that this pattern would change — and I think it will. Now, instead of taking copyright policy direct from the media conglomerates (who, after all, have a very legitimate point of view — even if not the only point of view) it is quite likely that the administration will construct it as a contract between content companies and high-technology companies such as Google. In some places, citizens and consumers will probably benefit, simply because optimizing for the interests of two economic blocs rather than one is likely to give us a slightly more balanced, and less technology-phobic, set of rules. And perhaps the administration will go further. But recent actions make me doubt that this is the case."

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Sexual Retard Alert

[SuperKendall]

Wow, where were you teabaggers

Since all you can do is throw sexual insults around I guess you didn't really want a response, you just wanted to cry about GWB some more. Wah Wah Wah! Just another Big Liberal Baby who says if GWB did it, anyone else has a right to!

Whatever. I didn't like his spending either and I was complaining about it then. But it doesn't mean Obama has not increased the spending by almost an order of magnitude, and that we should not complain about it now. It doesn't mean that as spending increases, you expect more people to complain and that's what we are seeing. Better to keep quiet? I don't think so. Enjoy your religious fervor while it lasts, until you wake up.

You are so blind, if you actually went to a Tea Party you'd see it's people from all over the spectrum, not just Republicans as your narrow minded fantasy world dictates. They are they but so are smarter liberals, and of course Libertarians - the group that accidentally voted Obama into power temporarily forgetting what happens when you let any ONE party have control of everything.

Enjoy your cry, baby.