Rights holders’ ‘undue influence’ over policymakers

Rights holders have, “undue influence over US policymakers to the detriment of consumers,” says a new report. According to Hollywood, Canada is one of, if not the , worst countries in the world. The corporate movie industry’s favourite American politician, Hollywood Howard Berman, was, “leading hearings at the Foreign Affairs Committee on Global IP Theft that quickly became ‘Blame Canada,’ blogged Ottawa law professor and Net commentator Michael Geist recently.

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