Technology Firms, Consumer Advocates Launch "Digital Freedom" Campaign

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From: Armando Stettner <[email protected]>
Date: October 25, 2006 8:21:36 PM EDT
To: David Farber <[email protected]>
Subject: Technology Firms, Consumer Advocates Launch "Digital  
Freedom" Campaign

Dave,

For IP'ers if you wish....

   armando


Washington - A group of technology firms, consumer advocacy groups  
and artists on Wednesday announced the launch of the Digital Freedom  
campaign, "a national effort to fight back against efforts by the big  
record labels and movie studios to ban new digital technologies." The  
Consumer Electronics Association, Public Knowledge, Electronic  
Frontier Foundation, Media Access Project, Computer and  
Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and New America Foundation  
are among groups supporting the campaign.

The group said it seeks to "educate policy makers, innovators,  
parents, students and other consumers about the lawsuits and  
legislation that threaten to revoke individuals' rights to use  
digital technology." "For the past few years, content companies have  
launched a sustained assault on the freedom of consumers to legally  
enjoy, create and distribute music and video, and on the freedom of  
manufacturers to innovate in response to consumer demands," said Gigi  
Sohn, president of Public Knowledge. "Those powerful companies have  
worked nonstop through the Federal Communications Commission and  
Congress to achieve their ends. The Digital Freedom campaign is a  
signal that it's time the government paid attention to consumers, and  
to the laws already on the books."

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061025/dcw029.html?.v=78

http://www.digitalfreedom.org