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Copyright Coalition Asks President Biden to Help Fight Piracy and Big Tech
The CreativeFuture coalition, which represents companies and individuals in the film, TV, music, and publishing industries, is asking President Biden to help fight online piracy. Now that the felony streaming bill and the CASE Act have been passed, big tech companies such as Google and Facebook are key adversaries once again.
[...] With the felony streaming bill and the CASE Act passed, the pro-copyright group already got most of what it asked for in last year's letter. But there is more. In the letter sent this week, CreativeFuture points the finger at an 'enemy' that's closer to home. "As you well know from your years in the Senate and as Vice President, not everyone in Washington is a supporter of copyright. The creative community has often been on the losing end of the battle to improve copyright protections," the group writes.
[...] With this week's letter, the group reminds President Biden of its concerns, calling for support. "We hope that your Administration will support ongoing efforts to ensure that the biggest internet platforms – companies such as Facebook and Google – have greater accountability for addressing the unlawful conduct occurring across their worldwide services."
"We know that you are personally aware of how these platforms can be misused and how they dodge accountability – all while making immense profits," the letter adds.
Also at The Hill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 26 2021, @12:56AM (2 children)
I'd like to have my hamburger sans pickle.
Will I pay for a hamburger with pickles in it, if others can give me one sans pickle....for free?
With the contempt businesses have shown about my privacy, what t watch, and how I paid for it, I admit I, too, don't much respect honoring their wishlist either.
Forcing me to accept terms and conditions, without agreeing to any of mine, seems to me an implicit invitation to look elsewhere.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 26 2021, @11:09AM
If others want to underbid you then that's their prerogative. You are free to look elsewhere but don't complain that you want government to force me to consume what you have to offer and deny me any alternatives when I don't want what you have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 26 2021, @11:22AM
At least you seem to admit that your true objective is not to stop piracy. It's to abolish competition.
If others want to underbid you then that's their prerogative. You are free to look elsewhere but don't complain that you want government to force me to consume what you have to offer and deny me any alternatives when I don't want what you have.
IP should not be about the IP holder. It should be about the public interest only. The fact that you have made it about something else is reason to abolish these laws.
Anyways the dishonest IP extremists need to stop pretending that they are really critics of these laws in favor if 'piracy'. I Get that IP extremists are dishonest but the fact that it's really an IP extremist pretending to be in favor of infringement to undermine their critics is transparent.
"With the felony streaming bill and the CASE Act passed, the pro-copyright group already got most of what it asked for"
Unfortunately the dishonest IP extremists used COVID to their advantage. They know people won't physically go out and protest with covid. Perhaps we should rethink our response to covid with respect to protesting.