Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:35:53 -0800 (PST) From: Susan Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Innovation v. intellectual property protection To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave --
The Committee for Economic Development is releasing a report today called "Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property."
"Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy," by John Schwartz (NYT):
The entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy, according to a report being released today by the Committee for Economic Development, a Washington policy group that has its roots in the business world.
Record companies and movie and television studios have fought copyright infringement on many fronts, hoping to find ways to prevent their products from being distributed free on the Internet. But critics warn that many of the new restrictions that the entertainment industry proposes - like enforcing technological requirements for digital television programming that would prevent it from being transmitted online - would upset the balance between the rights of the content creators and the rights of the public.
"We are sympathetic to the problems confronting the content distribution industry," said the report, "Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property." "But these problems - perfect copies of high-value digital works being transmitted instantly around the world at almost no cost - require clear, concentrated thinking, rather than quick legislative or regulatory action."
rest of the story is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/technology/01rights.html
Susan
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