AAP Urges Trump Make IP Protection, DMCA Revamp Priorities
The Association of American Publishers urged President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to make IP rights protection a top priority. The administration should push for Congress to make fixes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, said AAP Vice President-Legal and Governmental Affairs…
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Allan Adler in a letter to the transition team. The House and Senate Judiciary committees are gearing up to explore copyright legislation in the 115th Congress (see 1612080061). “The current epidemic of online infringement harms public as well as private interests in the availability” of creative content “and the legal flaws that hamper the DMCA in its intended operation need to be fixed,” Adler said. Earlier this week, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, RIAA and 17 other music organizations asked Trump to enforce IP laws to promote creativity and technological innovation (see 1612130023).