[LINK] ACTA Public Support - was US: Intellectual Property and Risks to the Public!

[Tom Koltai]

This is interesting - it appears to be attempt by the US Government to
get proactive support from the American Public for the US Gov's position
on ACTA.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> Marghanita da Cruz
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:15 AM
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> Subject: [LINK] US: Intellectual Property and Risks to the Public!
> 
> 
> > Intellectual property are the ideas behind inventions, the 
> artistry that goes into books and music, and the logos of 
> companies whose brands we have come to trust.   My job is to 
> help protect the ideas and creativity of the American public. 
>  One of the reasons that I care about this is because I 
> believe it is enormously important that the United States 
> remain a global leader in these forms of innovation - and 
> part of how we do that is by appropriately protecting our 
> intellectual property.  Our intellectual property represents 
> the hard work, creativity, resourcefulness, investment and 
> ingenuity of the American public.  Infringement of 
> intellectual property can hurt our economy and can undermine 
> U.S. jobs.  Infringement also reduces our markets overseas 
> and hurts our ability to export our products.  Counterfeit 
> products can pose a significant threat to the health and 
> safety of us all.  Imagine learning that the toothpaste you 
> and your family have used for years contains a dang
> erous chemical.  U.S. Customs officials have seized several 
> shipments of counterfeit toothpaste containing a dangerous 
> amount of diethylene glycol, a chemical used in brake fluid, 
> and that in sufficient doses is believed to cause kidney 
> failure.  All of these are reasons why your government has 
> renewed its efforts to challenge this illegal activity.
> > 
> > My job is to help coordinate the work of the federal 
> agencies that are involved with stopping this illegal 
> behavior.  We are going to work together to develop a 
> strategy to reduce those risks to the public, the costs to 
> our economy and to help protect the ingenuity and creativity 
> of Americans.  We want to be able to reduce the number of 
> infringing goods in the United States and abroad.  The 
> examples are almost endless: counterfeit car parts, illegal 
> software, pirated video games, knockoff consumer goods, 
> dangerous counterfeit medicines, and many other types of 
> products - including very sophisticated technology.  Our goal 
> is to better use taxpayer dollars and other government 
> resources to be more effective in reducing any threat to our 
> economy and our safety.  
> > To further these goals, we are working to find ways of 
> measuring these threats and their impact on us.  How many 
> jobs depend on the existence of intellectual property?  What 
> are the greatest risks to health and safety?  We need better 
> data on these questions and it is part of my job to figure 
> out what the answers are.  We cannot do that without your 
> help.  So, my office is asking the public to give us 
> information about the costs and the risks - and then give us 
> suggestions for what we could be doing better as a 
> government.   As a first step, we are issuing a notice to the 
> public asking for your input.  Here's a link to this request 
> (pdf).  You can send your comments to 
> intellectualproperty at omb.eop.gov.  We look forward to hearing 
> from you.
> <http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/23/intellectual-proper
ty-and-risks-public>
-- 
Marghanita da Cruz
http://ramin.com.au
Tel: 0414-869202


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