Lawmakers OK Anti - Piracy Czar (& Funds NIPLAC For 1st Time)

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WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - 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.



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The legislation, part of the bill funding Justice Department operations, also for the first time funds the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council (NIPLAC).

NIPLAC is charged with establishing policies, objectives and priorities designed to protect American intellectual property overseas and to coordinate and oversee implementation of intellectual property law enforcement throughout the government. While NIPLAC has been around since the early 1990s, it has never done anything, and appropriators hope that giving the organization $2 million and a new charter will make the office effective.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-media-copyright.html

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1. I love it when the masses choose to fight back

against the coroporate establishment.... makes that little socialist in me smile :)

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2. More DMCA crap

A further detour into restricting software development, media sharing, and freedom of information.