Innovation v. intellectual property protection

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:35:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Susan Crawford <susanpcrawford () yahoo com>
Subject: Innovation v. intellectual property protection
To: dave () farber net


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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