Kudos to the White House for posting hundreds and hundreds of comments online in response to the call by Victoria Espinel, the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, for guidance on how to improve enforcement of IP rights. You can see them here.

I’d direct your attention to our filing, because even though we already have our filing on our site, the one on the White House web site includes the letter to President Obama and Vice President Biden from more than 11,000 artists and creators across the United States. (Warning, it’s a pretty large PDF.)

Also note the hundreds and hundreds of filings from individual photographers, songwriters, novelists and other creators who told their personal stories. Many hundreds of them were kind enough to mention the Copyright Alliance.

Also note none of the submissions from artists were form letters. I saw two form letters from copyright opponents making somewhat frequent appearances, both telling a White House official mandated to improve IP enforcement to, essentially, do less enforcement. Hmm.

That the time and effort to craft personal submissions came from artists and creators is hardly surprising, given they have far more at stake in the debate than those who wish to access their works without permission or compensation.

We previously posted a summary and thumbnail description of several filings in the proceeding.

The next step is for Ms. Espinel and her (short-staffed) team to craft a national plan based on these comments. She has a lot of positive suggestions and stories to work with.

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This entry was posted on Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 12:48 pm by Patrick Ross and is filed under Obama, copyright opponents, creativity, creators, piracy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.