GOP Brief Attacks Current Copyright Law

cervesaebraciator writes "Regardless of how one feels about the GOP generally, it is always heartening to see current copyright and IP law questioned on a national stage. A Republican study committee, chaired by Ohio Representative Jim Jordan released a brief today titled Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it. Among other things, the brief attacks current copyright law as hampering scientific inquiry, penalizing journalism, and retarding the potential of the internet to allow the dispersion of knowledge through e-readers. In the briefs words, 'Current copyright law does not merely distort some markets – rather it destroys entire markets.' Four potential policy solutions are proposed: statutory damage reform, expansion of fair use, punishing false copyright claims, and limiting copyright terms. There may yet be hope for a national debate on the current oppressive copyright system, if just a fool's hope."

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If it's a GOP brief

[mozumder]

then they're looking to transfer copyright ownership to another private entity, instead of giving it to the public.

Remember, the GOP represents interests of monopolist business owners that seek to eliminate competition through government regulation. They do not represent interests of the public.

Re:If it's a GOP brief

[misexistentialist]

Government made you WTF kind of religion is this? Blind worship of power. Power may be a motivator of life, but conscious beings recognize freedom as the only sustainable goal. Far from protecting us from pollution and violence, government enables it on a vast scale. Socialism is the correct answer? Sure, if you like famine, corruption, and death.

Re:Not really the GOP ...

[wierd_w]

Indeed. The GOP will look at this study and react with incredulity, then decry the researchers as biased, and the study itself as a waste of money and time.

They will then plug their ears and go 'lalalalala' whenever the study gets brought up.