Lawmakers OK antipiracy czar | CNET News.com: "Buried inside the massive $388 billion spending bill Congress approved last weekend is a program that creates a federal copyright enforcement czar.
Under the program, the president can appoint a copyright law enforcement officer whose job is to coordinate law enforcement efforts aimed at stopping international copyright infringement and to oversee a federal umbrella agency responsible for administering intellectual property law.
Intellectual property law enforcement is divided among a range of agencies including the Library of Congress, the Justice and State departments and the U.S. Trade Representative.
It is hoped that designating a single overseer to coordinate copyright law enforcement will put some cohesion into the federal effort, said one Senate Appropriations Committee aide."
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
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>It is hoped that designating a single overseer to coordinate copyright law enforcement will put some cohesion into the federal effort, said one Senate Appropriations Committee aide."
It's quite an assumption that cohesion into the federal effort on copyright enforcement will be of benefit to Americans.
I agree with you. And find it interesting that Congress feels copyright will be easier to enforce and organize more so than national intelligence.
I haven't read a lot more on the Antipiracy Czar other than the Cnet article I linked to--but I plan on doing some more reading about it once I get back from Turkey break vacation and will post what I find to LibraryStories.
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