http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/14/partial-list-of-corp.html
*So they are wisely making their international copyright treaty a top secret.
That's a very interesting development. I'm sure it makes sense to them, but it also makes intellectual property a part of the spy apparatus. Does one really want to try that Russian experiment of building an economy on espiocrats and top secrecy?
*The law's not enough – you've gotta go into the spook underworld to protect the revenue stream?
*And... all these lobbyists have security clearances now, right?
They're gonna lunch with the NSA from now on. Instead of being harmless PR drones, they're gonna have dry ice clouds pouring off their feet whenever they enter a room.
They gotta hide from the pirates in the Undisclosed Location.
Is this a sign of strength and business confidence?
*Quoting Clay Shirky again here, with amendments.
The Unthinkable Intellectual Property scenario.
"The unthinkable scenario unfolded something like this: The ability to share [INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY] wouldn’t shrink, it would grow. Walled gardens would prove unpopular. Digital [PRODUCTION METHODS] would reduce inefficiency, and therefore profits. Dislike of [PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS] would prevent widespread use. People would resist being educated to act against their own desires. Old habits of [PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS] would not transfer online. Even ferocious litigation would be inadequate to constrain massive, sustained law-breaking. (Prohibition redux.) [THE GENERAL POPULATION] would not regard [INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PRODUCERS AND RENTIERS] as allies, nor would they regard customers as enemies. DRM’s requirement that the attacker be allowed to decode the content would be an insuperable flaw....
(((When you meet one of these people, ask them about their secrets, and how they plan to have all those inherited.)))
Chairman , Mr. Eric H. Smith
President
International Intellectual Property Alliance
Vice-Chairman
Mr. Jacques J. Gorlin
President
The Gorlin Group
Sandra M. Aistars, Esq.
Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
Time Warner Inc.
Kira M. Alvarez, Esq.
Director, International Government Affairs
Eli Lilly and Company
Mark Chandler, Esq.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Ms. Erin L. Ennis
Vice President
The U.S.-China Business Council (((I'm sure we can trust the Chinese with those big IP secrets)))
Francis (Frank) Z. Hellwig, Esq.
Senior Associate, General Counsel
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
J. Anthony Imler, Ph.D.
Director, Public Policy, Latin America
Merck & Co., Inc.
Ms. Mary A. Irace
Vice President, Trade and Export Finance
National Foreign Trade Council, Inc.
Jeffrey P. Kushan, Esq.
Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood LLP
Representing Biotechnology Industry Organization
Stevan D. Mitchell, Esq.
Vice President, Intellectual Property Policy
Entertainment Software Association (((Spy Entertainment.
Pretty awesome, Mr Bond)))
Douglas T. Nelson, Esq.
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary
CropLife America
Timothy P. Trainer, Esq.
President
Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center, P.C.
Representing the Thomas G. Faria Corporation
Neil I. Turkewitz, Esq.
Executive Vice President
Recording Industry Association of America
(((RIAA and CIA, together at last)))
Ms. Susan C. Tuttle
Governement Programs Executive
IBM Corporation
Mr. Herbert C. Wamsley
Executive Director
Intellectual Property Owners Association
Ms. Anissa S. Whitten
Trade Director
Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Ms. Deborah E. Wiley
Senior Vice President
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Association of American Publishers, Inc.
Shirley Zebroski, Ph.D
Director, Legislative Affairs
General Motors Corporation (((needs a new job – maybe she can sell xeroxes of the treaty)))
(((The Unthinkable Intellectual-Property Scenario – there's a panic, it's worldwide, nobody expected it, it gets worse and worse faster and faster, and patents and copyrights collapse across the board, their owners and the employees are reduced to penury, no bailout can fix it and IT IS REPLACED WITH NOTHING.
Not "another economic model" – an utterly devastated economy is replaced WITH NOTHING.)))
*Well, with ALMOST nothing:
