A couple of months ago, Victoria Espinel—the White House’s new Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator—called for public comments on the state of intellectual property law. Then in March we covered Ars’s summary of some of those filings.
Now Mike Masnick at Techdirt reports that the White House has now made all the public comments available on the web. While I haven’t looked at them myself, Mike has examined a few and summarizes their arguments, good and bad. As expected, a number of groups from both sides of the copyright wars have weighed in.
On a related note, Tom’s Hardware reports that James Cameron’s Avatar has broken records as the most illegally-downloaded Blu-Ray title ever, with over 200,000 downloads of the 10-gigabyte Blu-Ray version (let alone smaller DVD-size and video-only versions).
Possibly contributing is the fact that rental outlets Netflix and Redbox are taking part in a studio agreement not to offer movies for rental for 28 days after their initial sales release, and Avatar is a title covered by this agreement. It would seem that “windowing” isn’t appreciated by consumers any more in the movie world than in the e-book world.
