Today marks the 10th anniversary of the signing into law of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. I remember being concerned at the time, but kind of unsure what it all meant. When I started paying closer attention to such issues in library school a year later, it seemed to me that the law was rushed through without enough attention paid to how content had changed and would continue to change in the digital environment. We still haven't found our way out of the morass. This is one of those issues voters have little to no interest in this election year, and in the mind of the public copyright has been eclipsed by net neutrality and/or media consolidation as the hot button communications/media issue (they are connected, though, if you think about it). Still, I can't help but wonder where the two presidential candidates stand on copyright - and if they've bothered to make any public comments about copyright, net neutrality, or media consolidation.
Still, it's fascinating to read the summary linked above. Clinton surely did have other things on his mind at the time.
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OK, well, I guess that my memory is a little faulty - I was far more concerned about the Telecommunications Act of 1996 than the DMCA, if you are talking about "in the moment" concerns. So, score another one for consolidation being the sexier issue than copyright.
Here's Obama on net neutrality.
And a while back he suggested releasing the debates under a Creative Commons license.
Obama gets it. Or, at least, the people who work for him do. I'll take either one.
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