http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/14/patry-on-us-copyright-bullying/ an analysis of law, technology, economics, and policy Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:51:01 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/14/patry-on-us-copyright-bullying/comment-page-1/#comment-55767 kim Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:24:05 +0000 http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/14/patry-on-us-copyright-bullying/#comment-55767 One day, Bill, sufficient of the legislators and bureaucrats in the United States will work out that pushing the IIPA line is damaging the US' geopolitical interests to a degree not at all warranted by what is achieved through the pro-copyright push. With any luck, some of those <em>other</em> US companies will help them realise that. And then we'll all be better off. One day, Bill, sufficient of the legislators and bureaucrats in the United States will work out that pushing the IIPA line is damaging the US’ geopolitical interests to a degree not at all warranted by what is achieved through the pro-copyright push. With any luck, some of those other US companies will help them realise that. And then we’ll all be better off.

]]> http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/14/patry-on-us-copyright-bullying/comment-page-1/#comment-55765 Bill Patry Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:38:53 +0000 http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/14/patry-on-us-copyright-bullying/#comment-55765 Thanks so much for the posting and for mentioning that U.S. companies are "pushing on the other side." For too long, there has been a monolithic view of U.S. business as unrelentingly pro copyright on steroids, and of all of us in the U.S. as "high-handed, ignorant, contemptuous." what is lost in such overbroad, inaccurate generalities is that we too in the U.S. have suffered greatly in the last 7 years, but we are about to throw off our shackles and say, "Free at last, free at last, thank God we are free at last." Thanks so much for the posting and for mentioning that U.S. companies are “pushing on the other side.” For too long, there has been a monolithic view of U.S. business as unrelentingly pro copyright on steroids, and of all of us in the U.S. as “high-handed, ignorant, contemptuous.” what is lost in such overbroad, inaccurate generalities is that we too in the U.S. have suffered greatly in the last 7 years, but we are about to throw off our shackles and say, “Free at last, free at last, thank God we are free at last.”

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