Photographer Erik Stenbakken recently wrote the Obama Administration saying that the dramatic shift in America’s attitude towards ownership and payment for Intellectual Property is not a healthy one. He notes that “the attitude of ‘if I can find it and copy it, it’s mine for free; has cost millions, perhaps billions of dollars in losses to American creators. As a creator himself he says that if he cannot benefit financially from what he produces, there is little imitative to do it.

Here is his submission to the White House Intellectual Enforcement Coordinator.

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