Department of Commerce Recommends Changes To the Copyright ActThe Department of Commerce's Internet Task Force on Copyright Policy, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Economy has issued a White Paper on Remixes, First Sale Doctrine and Statutory Damages. The Task Force pretty much concludes that everything is hunky dory with remixes and that the market and educational programs will sort things out. Ditto on the first sale doctrine.But with statutory damages, the Task Force has made some significant recommendations, seemingly troubled by the Tenenbaum and Rasset-Thomas outlandishly high jury awards, on the one hand, and copyright trolls on the other. On yet another hand, the task force had concerns about stifling innovation where a new service or technology might be subjected to huge liabilities in an area where the question of infringement was unsettled.The Task Force recommended three amendments to the Copyright Act to addresssome of…
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