Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law

[douglas9]

Source: CNET

President Bush on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position.


The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act establishes within the executive branch the position of intellectual property enforcement coordinator, who will be appointed by the president.

The law also steepens penalties for intellectual-property infringement, and increases resources for the Department of Justice to coordinate for federal and state efforts against counterfeiting and piracy. The so-called Pro-IP Act passed unanimously in the Senate last month and received strong bipartisan support in the House.

The Bush administration initially expressed its opposition to the legislation, but one of its more contentious provisions, which would have allowed the Justice Department to pursue civil litigation against copyright infringers, was removed.

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Cabinet Level?

[ixion]

1. screw RIAA, just as RIAA has been screwing the musicians it signs

this is nothing more than the continued lock down of our society.

[fasttense]

2. So much for the supposed small government that Republicons like to talk about. n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. This bill was introduced by John Conyers. It passed with bipartisan support in the House and

unanimous support in the Senate.

Could it be that this bill is not as bad as some are making it out to be?

[rucognizant]

11. NO IT"S HIDEOUS!

What do they know? They are lawmakers, not creative people! They don't have to pay the electric bill out of the sale of their creative works.
Or they are all truly fachists...................
What it means for me, 69 year old on less tham $1.000. SS a month (-$200 to pay ALL the bills)
They have just taken away, MY OWNERSHIP OF IDEAS, out of my OWN HEAD! Now to protect them I will have to pay MONEY to a 3
rd, party USER to protect myself from being plagerized!
It opens up a way for USERS, non creative people, to earn money off MY IDEAS!
Assessing my inventory of paintings I already HAVE, if they don't sell in my lifetime they are my Grandchildren's inheritance................
at 1977 copyright fees ( $10.00) it would cost me $1,000. to protect them. Until this bill I could automatically sue based on the "© " marked on my work. After this bill goes into effect it will be useless, as will all your computer keys which have this symbol built in!
The worst of it is there is NO CEILING SET FOR THE FEE TO BE CHARGED! There is NOTHING to stop these "USERS" from charging $100. or $1,000. per copyright!
Now independent creators are as straight -jacketed as union workers, and everybody else in this society. KILL the critical thinkers!
ALready the predatory privateers have been seeking ways to get visual works for free! ( No more Sat Eve Post, COMMISSIONING Rockwell to do a cover design, paying him a depost to pay the bills while he was working on it.........)
No more illustrations on the back cover of Reader's Digest.
Corporations holding competitions for school kids to get their artwork free ( ego gratification or a cheap prize) instead of hiring professionals.
This is truly MY tea in the Harbor moment!

[AlphaCentauri]

19. I totally agree

I have seen many corporation asking for improvements to their products to ingenious customers who gave up their ideas and those corporations make millions out of someone on the street idea.

[NashVegas]

15. Just Because Conyers Backed It Doesn't Make It Not Horrendous

This and the equally horrific Orphaned Works bill is not to protect artists and people who come up with ideas and invent things. It's to protect exploitative media companies and their investors.

[Waiting For Everyman]

3. Anything the lawyers want, they get.

[NC_Nurse]

4. Good luck with that. Even if they shut U.S. pirating down, that's the tip of the

iceberg. It's a cottage industry in Asia. I'm sure the Chinese govt. will get right on that. :eyes:

The RIAA is so pathetic.

[KillCapitalism]

5. Well if that's the case...

then Go China!

[lovuian]

18. exactly its China they need to close down

not American

[high density]

7. So is this cabinet position going to be based out of China?

[Smith_3]

8. The democrats are for it too.

So much for the "party of the people"

[msongs]

9. create your own movies and music - get even with the evil artists n songwriters :-) nt

[rucognizant]

12. Read my post above...

It is Hideous! It goes much deeper than YOU side stepping paying for your movies/ music. It has virtually put me out of work!
Killed the creative impulse. WHy should I work my butt off for 2 weeks, only to have my creation stolen. Or have to pay a fee to prevent it.

[Crowman1979]

10. As a Pirate-American, I'm just shivering me timbers at how offended I am by this legislation!

[Bake]

14. Arrrrr, Matey!!

We'll be walkin' the plank soon enough! Arrrrrrrr!

Bake

[NashVegas]

13. Intellectual Property Rights Are Mental *Enclosure*

This shit's awful. There ought to be mass public resistance.

[tom_paine]

16. OMG. More Fuhrer-style totalitarian intrusion into the economy

Naomi Wolf pronouncements keep coming true in one form or another.

She's either on to something, or incredibly lucky.

It is not thelaw itself I am referring to here, it the the creation of a Loyal Bushie Ministerial Position which can be abused (and WILL be used if it's a Loyal Bushie in charge) to be used as an Instrument of the State to punish Loyal Americans and reward Loyal Bushies.

Basically, the same things the Bushies to to virtually EVERY institutionthey gain control of.

Promote the crimnal, but Loyal Bushies, and make life so hard for Honest Americans (like David Iglesias), giving them fake bad performace reveiws and making daily work life a living harassment hell until they leave in disgust.

Point is, this is YET ANOTHER Bushie Fuhrer-Executive Power Grab that willulitmately pull even MOE resources of law enforcement into the Bushie Clutches to be Bushified.

Over the long-term, expect this to perform the usual primary function of ALL Bushie Executive Agencies, which is to protect the corporations and wealthy from the citizenry, and expect it to be a strong and pwoerful club the Loyal Bushies will wield to harass their political enemies, which is to say the Amerikan Subject Populace (that's US).

Wow. At every step, the Fuhrer's power grows.

If Obama should someohow gain the Imperial Throne, (and YES we must akll get out on Nov. 4th and flood the system with our honest votes), he must reverse everything he possibly can, especially with an idea of scaling back the Fuhrer's Executive Infrastructure, which will now be the main portion of the corrupted, neutralized agencies he is taking over and will fight him at every step of the way unless he takes steps to DeBushify/DeNazify and repair the integrity of these agencies.

If he does not at least make some headway at that, as we KNOW he will AVOID prosecuting felonious Bushies, he has as much as said so. But if he does not at least make some headway in restoring the integrity of the Bushified/Nazified Executive Agencies, then all he provides us with is a "rest" between Bushie Vampires, who will then pick up where they left off as if they were never gone...

[lovuian]

17. ROFL this is hillarious they haven't got a clue

unenforceable what are you going to let all the thieves of wall street walk away and get the kid next door

this is unenforceable and China will still steal everything

they are clueless

[pnutbutr]

20. Check out the sponsors of the bill

Be pissed at congress for this POS.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-3325

[redqueen]

21. Thanks for the link.

:kick:

[Zhade]

22. "a new White House cabinet position" So much for small government, you freeper suckers.

YOU GOT PWNED