Intellectual Property Law

Hollywood's Anti-Piracy Priorities For ObamaTech Daily Dose

Increasing efforts to fight illegal movie theater videotaping as well as Internet and optical disc piracy are key points in a one-pager submitted to President-elect Barack Obama's transition team this week by the Motion Picture Association of America. The trade group, which represents major movie studios, offered the document as part of Change.gov's "Your Seat at the Table" feature, under which proceedings of meetings and documents shared between Obama's aides and outside groups are made available for public comment.

In its briefing document, the MPAA said:

? Illicit camcording remains the major source of pirated content and the group worked with the U.S. government to include anti-camcording language in new free trade agreements, including the Korean and Malaysian deals.
? Internet piracy is a top priority for MPAA and the group views recent efforts by the governments of France and the United Kingdom t protect online content and facilitate inter-industry cooperation as useful models.
? MPAA has identified Canada, China, India, Mexico, Russia and Spain as countries that should receive priority trade policy attention in 2009.

Full post as published by IP Law Daily on December 09, 2008 (boomark / email).