White House: First Copyright coordinator resigns

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The task of Victoria Espinel was the national and international coordination of the fight against copyright, patent and trademark infringements. The “copyright Empress” of the U.S. government, Victoria Espinel, resigned on Friday. This report several U.S. media. A successor is apparently still being sought. Unconfirmed Rumor has shall take Espinel (formerly Business Software Alliance) management of the BSA, a lobby organization of large software vendors. The MPAA, the association of major Hollywood studios, and the RIAA, the association of the major music labels, Espinel scatter roses now for their work and urge the fleet reappointment of their duties.

2009 had Espinel [1] the then newly established Office [2] of the Commissioner for the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights ( USIPER [3] ) taken. Their task was the national and international coordination of the fight against copyright, patent and trademark infringements. Previously, the jurist had worked for intangible assets and innovation in the U.S. Trade Representative’s office and was a visiting professor at a university hold.

While working for the Obama administration, they brought private company to automatically infringement of intellectual property rights more difficult. And agreed in July the White House with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo a program for financing drying up of so-called piracy websites: The three sizes of the online advertising industry to them any more marketing circuits convey [4]

<. p> Espinel also called for an intensification of a criminal law: The unlicensed streaming legally protected content shall be declared in their opinion, a crime with correspondingly high penalties

by law [5]. ” / b> and by ( a decree Obama [6] ) is actually the “revolving door” of the seamless exchange of officials to be stopped in the lobby organizations. Therefore, it is not certain whether Espinel could ever equal to sign up with the BSA. However, the law also provides exceptions to these restrictions before if compliance would be difficult to recruit appropriate officials.

The BSA has about Adobe, Apple, Dell, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Siemens among its members . The organization is known for their use against unlawful use commercial software license. On the occasion of the re-election of Barack Obama last November led c’t an interview with Matt Reid of the BSA. He commended the establishment of the first USIPER and saw it as a proof that [7] “Obama understands technology.” <- AUTHOR MARKER DATA BEGIN -> ( Daneil AJ Sokolov ) / <- RSPEAK_STOP -> ( jk [8] )
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