IP Notes

> Digitalconsumer.org is a consumer-advocacy group started in 2001 with a mission to restore the balance of copyright law so that artists and creators can prosper while citizens have reasonable flexibility to use content in fair and legal ways. The group is composed of entrepreneurs, investors and consumers, and it is proposing a set of principles - a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights - that it intends to have passed into law. These principles would preserve consumers' historic fair-use rights that have been recently diminished by changes in copyright law made at the request of media companies.
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> they claim over 50,000 members and are members of the alliance for digital progress, a Silicon Valley industry group.
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> co founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer. Kraus is ceo of Jot Spot, " the first application-wiki company" and a founder of the former Excite.com. Spence was CTO at Excite. DigitalConsumer seems to be housed at JotSpot.
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> They held a digital rights summit in 2003:
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> AEA, Intel and DigitalConsumer.org are convening a Digital Rights Summit to discuss present and future regulation of the distribution, use, and manipulation of digital media./...IT industry executives, Congressional policymakers, consumer representatives, and industry analysts will gather to discuss how Washington> '> s debate over digital rights is affecting Silicon Valley businesses today.
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# posted by John @ 11:10 AM