Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Floating More IP Czars

P2P Net, an infringement-friendly news site, joins the growing chorus of copyleft activists hoping to forestall President-Elect Obama from appointing a pro-industry IP Czar. P2P Net suggests Nashville music attorney Fred Wilhelms, who specializes in representing artists seeking allegedly unpaid royalties from record labels and publishers. (Why can't I find him on Tennessee's official attorney directory? Hope he's OK!)

The comments below the P2P Net article include some entertaining suggestions, including singer/songwriter Janis Ian, Bono, Kris Kristofferson (a Rhodes scholar!) and "NINE INCH NAILS BAND LEADER." Apparently unacceptable are "Lars [I killed Napster] Ulrich and Orrin [blow up their computers] Hatch."
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM

    Here's a vote for Courtney Love as the nation's IP Czarina! Before you laugh, she was willing to face down her own fans and write an anti-Napster op-ed some years ago in a moment of lucidity. She's smarter than she blogs.

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  2. Ben SheffnerDecember 30, 2008 at 9:50 PM

    Here's the article, wherein Ms. Love expounds on Orrin Hatch, "dot communists," and her Prada pants:

    http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html

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