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As part of a public consultation exercise, US industry association the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), whose members include lobbying organisations such as the Business Software Alliance, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), has submitted recommendations to the US trade representative for revising the US' blacklist of copyright sinners. The 498 page submission lists a number of countries in which, in the opinion of the IIPA, intellectual property rights are poorly enforceable or inadequately protected. The submission expressly calls for a number of countries to be placed under special observation – in part in response to their support for open source software.
According to their notes, the IIPA reads like a "Who's Who of Music and Copyright Protection" except that one member is the BSA and that in turn includes some very interesting names, assuming Dana is right on the nose.
Another item of interest is that the "attack list" includes Brazil, one of the places where open source has really taken off. I wonder if a largish company in Redmond is a "sleeper member" of the IIPA too ?
As far as a "sleeper" or "submarine" member, Microsoft is one of the biggest members of the BSA, isn't it? And the BSA is a member of the IIPA.
"Intellectual Property" is something of a contradiction, in that independent invention happens all the time. So this "IIPA" is bound to cause a lot of problems while it thrashes around the tarpit while dying.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5952
According to their notes, the IIPA reads like a "Who's Who of Music and Copyright Protection" except that one member is the BSA and that in turn includes some very interesting names, assuming Dana is right on the nose.
Another item of interest is that the "attack list" includes Brazil, one of the places where open source has really taken off. I wonder if a largish company in Redmond is a "sleeper member" of the IIPA too ?