Rep. Berman Hates Your Right of Fair Use
The Dishonorable Howard Berman, of whom I must claim association through constituency, once again is putting big corporate interests above citizens.
From MacNN:
Howard Berman (D-CA), the chair of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, today argued that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not go far enough, despite common complaints about its severity. Berman is overseeing a hearing on the PRO-IP Act, a bill which could increase statutory damages for copyright violation, and even establish an intellectual property enforcement office in the Department of Justice.
Berman wants to expand the federal government to further remove your right to fair use of media. Citizens would be funding their own removal of rights.
Innovation can only occur when the legal system promotes progress through short and limited intellectual property ownership. His support for the PRO-IP Act is anti-consumer and equivalent to government supported censorship of ideas. Feel free to contact him.
This entry was posted on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 14:26 and is tagged California, fair use, politics. 