A word to the wise: don't underestimate her. Aistars may now run the Copyright Alliance and serve as a mouthpiece for small copyright holders (particularly when their interests align with big ones), but she is one of the best known IP lawyers in the country, having headed the IP group at Time Warner's legal department, chaired inter-industry tech standards groups, and practiced IP law at a big Wall Street law firm. Those who let their guard down and assume that she, like the pathetic Copyright Alliance of old, only apprehends airy generalities will risk getting torched. We all know that some (but not all)of the antiSOPA hype is strategic smokescreen and it's in our interest to get SOPA supporters totally engaged in those detours. Aistars unfortunately probably understands as well as anyone what's what.
Does the exhibit mention the Protect IP Act? No. Does it mention copyright? Yes. Following the logic set forth in the main post, dispay of the Constitution should be banned on Capital Hill during the pendency of the Protect IP debate since that piece of blatent propoganda, in section that is universally referred to by the Supreme Court as the "Copyright Clause," expressly provides for the securing for "Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
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A word to the wise: don't underestimate her. Aistars may now run the Copyright Alliance and serve as a mouthpiece for small copyright holders (particularly when their interests align with big ones), but she is one of the best known IP lawyers in the country, having headed the IP group at Time Warner's legal department, chaired inter-industry tech standards groups, and practiced IP law at a big Wall Street law firm. Those who let their guard down and assume that she, like the pathetic Copyright Alliance of old, only apprehends airy generalities will risk getting torched. We all know that some (but not all)of the antiSOPA hype is strategic smokescreen and it's in our interest to get SOPA supporters totally engaged in those detours. Aistars unfortunately probably understands as well as anyone what's what.
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Does the exhibit mention the Protect IP Act? No. Does it mention copyright? Yes. Following the logic set forth in the main post, dispay of the Constitution should be banned on Capital Hill during the pendency of the Protect IP debate since that piece of blatent propoganda, in section that is universally referred to by the Supreme Court as the "Copyright Clause," expressly provides for the securing for "Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."