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."

Comments

Re:Legitimate?

[Anonymous Coward]

It only makes sense when you view it from a point of the slashdot dickfaces posting intentionally inflammatory stories just to get some clicks.

Seriously: fuck you slashdot.

first po57

[Anonymous Coward]

users of NetbSD to stick somethi[ng

OBAMA WILL STEAL ALL YOUR MONEY!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks America for being so stupid!

Re:Don't bet on it

[aeschenkarnos]

they're the ones who completely ignored Ron Paul's existence and went out of their way to paint McCain as a senile old man and Palin as a crazy country bumpkin.

That would have taken about a teaspoon of paint.

Republicans Racist Against Minorities

[Anonymous Coward]

So you think that Blacks should have voted for the racist Republican party?

All that dog whistle racist nonsense taught a generation of minorities what the Republican party really represents.

Keep your racist bullshit. We are never voting Republican.

Re:Republicans Racist Against Minorities

[Anonymous Coward]

Umm...which party still has a grand pooba, or klegle or some KKK bullshit leadership post, in the Senate?

Which party did that Senator who within the last decad, spoke frankly and openly about, in his own word, "Niggers?"

Which party created the Jim Crow laws?

Which party even now promises the black constituency everything and then delivers nothing once in power?

On the other hand, which party enabled the passage of the civil rights laws because the "other" party could not muster enough of it's majority to pass it?

Which party argues for a color blind society?

Which party had the President that wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

It's not racist to insist that everyone is just as capable of succeeding as anyone else.

Re:Don't bet on it

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck the consumer is only a legitimate point of view to corporatists and their fascist friends.

Criticism of Obama is Racist

[Anonymous Coward]

When commenting on this thread, please remember that any criticism of Obama is "straight up" racism.

Under Bush: "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism!"
Under Obama: "Dissent is the highest form of racism!"

Re:Don't bet on it

[Cathbard]

And it had nothing to do with the Republican Party being a bunch of greedy megalomanics and everybody was sick of them turning their country into a Fascist state?