[ga] Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Respectfully and strongly I disagree with DOC in this effort
and idea...  I would also like to know where DOC got it's
figures that "750,000 American jobs have been lost to piracy"?
Why not 749,999 or 750,001??  Me thinks this figure is a
wildly non-statistically supported guess, and comes from IP
SIG's which also can't support this figure with actual statistics
either.

  A "Copyright Czar" much like and "Internet Czar" will not have
any significant positive effect in curbing Copywright violations for
very many obvious reasons.  What would be much more helpful
for DOC to encourage is to call upon Congress to strengthen
and significantly clarify Copywright law, so that there is a clear
path by which Copywright violations in an ever increasing IT
based world can operate safely, and in a more friendly manner...

See:
TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding
the
cost of piracy are being trotted out in an attempt to push through a
 http://techdirt.com/articles/20081003/1946432453.shtml new
"Copyright Czar" position. "In urging President Bush to sign into
law the ProIP bill, which would give him a copyright czar (something the

Justice Department had said it it doesn't want), the US Chamber of
Commerce is claiming that 750,000 American jobs have been lost to
piracy.
Yet, it doesn't cite where that number comes from."

Regards,

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