Our Response To The White House's Request For Comments On Its Intellectual Property Enforcement Strategy | Techdirt

"Last month, we noted that the new IP Enforcement Coordinator, Danny Marti, is now accepting comments for the administration's next 'Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement' plan. While I know it's easy to roll your eyes at participating in these things, in years past we sent in comments and were pleasantly surprised to see the resulting plan actually take many of those comments into account, and turn out to be something that was mostly reasonable. We do have some concerns about Marti, given that the comments he's made to date seem to reflect a very... one-sided view of copyright enforcement. However, we're hopeful that he's open to evidence and reason. Below are the comments that we're submitting, much of which was based on the Carrot & Stick research report we released last week. If you'd like to submit your own comments, all the details are here. The deadline is today, October 16th ..."