Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar? 174
seanpark writes "Who will President Elect Obama select for the recently established post of Copyright Czar? Biden has a longstanding relationship with Big Content, and he was partly responsible for the PRO-IP Act that created the position. The short list according to the article includes a few lobbyists (who would likely be disqualified by stringent ethical guidelines) and Lawrence Lessig, who was a technology adviser to the Obama Campaign."
Re:Not the good professor (Score:3, Funny)
erg... "in a sea". Catlike typing detected.
MOTD: I am looking for a honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic
Our new Copyright Czar (Score:5, Funny)
... I heard that Darl McBride is looking for a new job...
Re:$10 Says Obama Picks a Fucking Jew (Score:1, Funny)
Only $10? You cheap bastard.
I think it's between these 3 guys (Score:5, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great [wikipedia.org]
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b2ivanIV.htm [hyperhistory.net]
I vote for Peter the Great. His painting looks friendly and we all know how important image is in a copyright Czar.
Lessig Too Sane a Choice (Score:3, Funny)
Lessig becomes copyright Czsar.
The 'industry' (parasitic, development-repelling middle-men) howl and tear at their hair and eyes. They take to the streets, shirtless, throwing themselves to the tarmac, flailing themselves with mic stands. With raised arms and tear soaked faces they cry for Moolah's mercy.
Obama is taken in by their deceit, takes pity on them, shelves Lessig and appoints their preferred Cszar; the zombie Jack Valenti.
Chewing a Lemon (Score:4, Funny)
I can see the faces on the RIAA/MPAA moguls now after they went to all that effort to convince congress to create that post, only to have it backfire on them so badly
Oh, I would laugh so hard
RMS (Score:5, Funny)
Wouldn't it be apallingly hilarious if RMS was consulted or even appointed? Come on, RMS for Copyright Czar- defender of our freedoms. Seriously though, he does have some good ideas on reform, as seen at (stallman.org).
Re:Not the good professor (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not the good professor (Score:4, Funny)
Zombie Jack Valenti is only mildly decomposed by now. I say we use him.
Re:Cory Doctorow, the only man we could trust. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:$10 Says Obama Picks a Fucking Jew (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Cory Doctorow, the only man we could trust. (Score:4, Funny)
So he can "unpublish" those he disagrees with and use the office to endlessly pimp his books? No thanks.
Re:Islam is civilized. (Score:4, Funny)
I'd heard he had some interesting theories on topology [wikipedia.org], but I never knew he [wikipedia.org] was capable of time travel.
But why did he stop in the dark ages? [wikipedia.org] Why not go further forward and get longbowmen, muskets or even tanks?
Re:$10 Says Obama Picks a Fucking Jew (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not the good professor (Score:5, Funny)
"Mr. Valenti, what would you say is the most valuable class of intellectual property under your purview?"
"BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS"
Re:Lessig would be fine (Score:3, Funny)
True, working inside an organizational system is different than working outside of one, and like you I don't know if Lessig is an inside player.
But let's be realistic, here - all I want, all I think anybody really wants, is a copyright adviser who actually understands the different facets of copyright and hasn't spent the last decade or more working for Sony/BMG, Disney, or some other obvious media conglomerate.
If this were still the Bush administration we were talking about here, I know the choice would be somebody with big business connections and an agenda; I have more faith in Obama to choose somebody with university connections a fucking brain.
Re:Not the good professor (Score:5, Funny)
[Y]ou can't meet the extremism of Big Media with moderates willing to compromise. [...] We don't need a moderate - we need somebody who will make dramatic changes [...] .
Sounds like another vote for RMS to me.
Re:Our new Copyright Czar (Score:1, Funny)
Was it absolutely necessary for you to make me spit coffee all over my keyboard!? Asshole!
Re:Our new Copyright Czar (Score:3, Funny)
Was it absolutely necessary for you to make me spit coffee all over my keyboard!? Asshole!
I learned years ago not to read Slashdot with coffee up my nose.
Re:Not the good professor (Score:2, Funny)