The federal government’s copyright policy toward the Internet should encourage...
The federal government’s copyright policy toward the Internet should encourage innovation instead of reinforcing existing business models, said the Electronic Freedom Foundation, Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation Friday. In a response to the Commerce Department’s request for comments…
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on copyright and innovation in the Internet economy the groups said Commerce should consider the costs of enforcement in copyright actions. The content industry’s focus on lawsuits and technological solutions to copyright problems does not work, they said. [A]t the height of the Recording Industry of America’s litigation campaign in 2007 and 2008, various file-sharing venues reported stratospheric growth in visitors, searches, and software downloads,” they noted. Tech solutions such as filtering data traffic of users raises serious privacy issues because a filter must examine all packets to separate the infringing from the non-infringing ones, they said. The current notice-and-takedown procedure of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is working, and content providers should consider a voluntary collective licensing system, they wrote. Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force issued the call for comments on Oct. 5 and accepted them through Friday (WID Oct 6 p4).