It's time for the IP fightback to begin, says LESI president
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| In the next IAM, which goes to the printers this Wednesday,
| we are running a letter from Adam Liberman, the current
| president of LES International. He got in touch with us on
| the back of the Broken Brand story we ran in the last issue
| of the magazine, which dealt with the negatve perceptions
| that IP so often creates within the business world, the
| political class and among the general public. Liberman
| acknowledges that there is a serious problem and makes a
| few suggestions as to how the IP community can set things
| straight.
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| [...]
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| Regular readers of this blog will not be surprised to learn
| that I think Liberman is absolutely correct. I sense that a
| growing number of people within the big and diverse IP
| community are also coming to understand just how serious
| things have become. We already have the IP Brand
| Development Group, but this is only a start. The simple
| truth is that there is a great IP story out there just
| waiting to be told. What we need is a concerted campaign to
| make sure that this happens. If it doesn't, the IP backlash
| is only going to get stronger. IAM stands read to play its
| part. What about you?
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=c8e255cb-d9f2-4fb7-ac2a-4df2e212d6a8
Meanwhile they indoctrinate kids to love 'IP'.
Recent:
Wait, Was That An RIAA Education Campaign... Or Is It About Turning
Schoolkids Into Unpaid Shills?
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| Of course, since we were suggesting more reasonable responses to
| the RIAA's proposals, why not have those same kids do a class
| project where they talk about artists who have embraced what their
| fans want, and have showed that it's possible to do quite well
| with models that don't involve going to war with your best fans.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090917/1819256229.shtml
RIAA Asks Schoolkids To Assist With Propaganda
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| We wrote about Music-Rules! and similar industry propaganda
| efforts in May, outlining some of their falsehoods and biases. For
| instance, the RIAA tells kids, "Never copy someone else's creative
| work without permission from the copyright holder" â omitting the
| important right to make creative fair use of existing content. It
| also coins a misleading term, "songlifting," (which the curriculum
| says is "just as bad as shoplifting"). Perhaps most disturbing of
| all given that the curriculum is supposed to be adopted by
| schools, it teaches kids bad math as part of its lessons on peer
| to peer file-sharing.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/riaa-asks-schoolkids-assist-propaganda
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