It's not yet on the site of the Institute for Policy Innovation (as of the morning of March 11) but a PR Newswire release says IPI will soon be posting a new paper by University of Utah Professor Lee Hollaar critiquing HR-1201, the bill by Rep. Boucher (D-Va.) that would dilute the rights of copyright owners. Hollaar, one of the Copyright Alliance's academic advisory council members, knows both computer science and the law, and that along with his no-holds-barred style can lead to some pretty interesting papers, some of which are found in our Documents and Research section.

Here at the Copyright Alliance we have serious concerns with HR-1201 and the path it would put us down, chipping away at rights here, eliminating rights there. That's why we wrote the House Judiciary Committee's IP Subcommittee recently urging that every effort to attach 1201 language to the PRO-IP Act be resisted. It was, and we're grateful.

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