US IP subcommittee to be abolished
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- The US subcommittee on courts, the internet, and intellectual property is to be abolished in the new Congress.
Instead, intellectual property issues will be examined at full committee level, says Congress Daily.
“A Subcommittee on Courts and Antitrust will be created, but no other subcommittee changes are expected,” says the story.
The IP subcommittee was among the House’s most active under the direction of Hollywood Howard Berman (right), it states, adding under its auspices were “hot topics” such as ending a long-standing music royalty exemption for AM and FM radio, and changing a portion of copyright law that deals with musical tracks, writings, images, videos or other content “whose owners cannot be easily identified” were high on Berman’s list of things to do.
The change comes at the behest of house judiciary committee chairman John Conyers who, “plans to remain just as active on IP issues at the full committee level,” adds Congress Daily.
Congress Daily – Exclusive: Conyers To Abolish IP Subcommittee, November 12, 2008
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