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posted by scubacuda
on Monday March 01, @03:01AM
from the no-longer-a-leftist-fringe dept.
News.com and NY Times (free reg):
The Committee for Economic Development reports that the entertainment industry's pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy. 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.
"The ideas of copy-left, or of a more liberal regime of copyright, are receiving wider and wider support. It's no longer a wacky idea cloistered in the ivory tower; it's become a more mainstream idea that we need a different kind of copyright regime to support the wide range of activities in cyberspace."
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