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Two news stories in one.
First is US President Obama's support for loosening of copyright laws to help the visually impaired by allowing the cross-border distribution of special-format reading materials. You would think that this would be a fairly obvious thing to support, but Obama's actions are against that of almost all major US copyright holders, which fears that any loosening of copyright laws will set a dangerous precedent for further similar actions. The major copyright holders, which include everyone from the music, movie industries, to software publishers, have no respect for the rights of the blind as long as it interferes with their campaign to tighten copyright legislation around the world.
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The other news story if Vice President Biden, holding roundtable talks on copyright. Invited are the RIAA, MPAA, music and movie studios, publishers, as well as government agencies including the FBI, Secret Service and Homeland Security. The talks aims to bring "all stakeholders" in the copyright debate to discuss what to do about the digital menace. Consumer groups, rights groups, the public, IT companies, ISPs, small publishers and content holders and pretty much everyone on the other side of the copyright debate were not invited, which sets a pretty clear tone as to what the talks will be about and what position the government is taking in the debate. Joe Biden has long been a supporter of the RIAA, based on his voting record in the senate.
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First is US President Obama's support for loosening of copyright laws to help the visually impaired by allowing the cross-border distribution of special-format reading materials. You would think that this would be a fairly obvious thing to support, but Obama's actions are against that of almost all major US copyright holders, which fears that any loosening of copyright laws will set a dangerous precedent for further similar actions. The major copyright holders, which include everyone from the music, movie industries, to software publishers, have no respect for the rights of the blind as long as it interferes with their campaign to tighten copyright legislation around the world.
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The other news story if Vice President Biden, holding roundtable talks on copyright. Invited are the RIAA, MPAA, music and movie studios, publishers, as well as government agencies including the FBI, Secret Service and Homeland Security. The talks aims to bring "all stakeholders" in the copyright debate to discuss what to do about the digital menace. Consumer groups, rights groups, the public, IT companies, ISPs, small publishers and content holders and pretty much everyone on the other side of the copyright debate were not invited, which sets a pretty clear tone as to what the talks will be about and what position the government is taking in the debate. Joe Biden has long been a supporter of the RIAA, based on his voting record in the senate.
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