[IP] Technology Firms, Consumer Advocates Launch "Digital Freedom" Campaign
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From: Armando Stettner <aps@xxxxxxxx>
Date: October 25, 2006 8:21:36 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Technology Firms, Consumer Advocates Launch "Digital
Freedom" Campaign
Dave,
For IP'ers if you wish....
armando
Washington - A group of technology firms, consumer advocacy groups
and artists on Wednesday announced the launch of the Digital Freedom
campaign, "a national effort to fight back against efforts by the big
record labels and movie studios to ban new digital technologies." The
Consumer Electronics Association, Public Knowledge, Electronic
Frontier Foundation, Media Access Project, Computer and
Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and New America Foundation
are among groups supporting the campaign.
The group said it seeks to "educate policy makers, innovators,
parents, students and other consumers about the lawsuits and
legislation that threaten to revoke individuals' rights to use
digital technology." "For the past few years, content companies have
launched a sustained assault on the freedom of consumers to legally
enjoy, create and distribute music and video, and on the freedom of
manufacturers to innovate in response to consumer demands," said Gigi
Sohn, president of Public Knowledge. "Those powerful companies have
worked nonstop through the Federal Communications Commission and
Congress to achieve their ends. The Digital Freedom campaign is a
signal that it's time the government paid attention to consumers, and
to the laws already on the books."
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061025/dcw029.html?.v=78
http://www.digitalfreedom.org
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