House Republicans Flip-Flop on Copyright Reforms
Posted at 4:13 p.m. on Nov. 19, 2012
CNET: “In an bizarre policy flip-flop, a group of more than 160 House Republicans appeared to endorse extensive digital copyright reform on Friday, then disavowed its position the next day.”
“The House Republican Study Committee, an influential collection of conservatives that tends to pull the House leadership to the right, published a set of recommendations that could have been penned by Larry Lessig and the Electronic Frontier Foundation: expanded fair use rights, lower penalties for “willful” infringement, and dramatically abbreviated copyright terms… But then the 9-page policy brief vanished from the RSC’s Web site yesterday.”
