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DOJ, a subsidiary of the RIAA

Wired just posted about yet another DOJ appointment having come straight from the RIAA legal halls. That’s FIVE RIAA appointments.

I am struggling – incredibly hard – to reconcile this trend in DOJ appointments with an administration that paints itself as forward-thinking and technically savvy.

The current U.S. copyright and IP laws are subsidizing broken business models and strangling creativity. How this line of appointments will help us navigate a path towards better innovation in the future is beyond this monkey’s simple brain…

Filed Under: Copyright Tagged With: copyright, DOJ, government, intellectual property, RIAA, white house

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