Monday, February 13, 2012

A VC: Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs

A VC: Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs

An executive from Viacom testified recently in Congress that the vast majority of piracy is limited to "about twenty websites." So the technology industry has done a lot to help the content industry get a handle on online piracy in the past decade.

"If another negotiation is in order to amend the DMCA, then let's have it. The last negotiation produced an excellent compromise that has stood the test of time and allowed important new services like Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to be created and become large companies and massive job creators." -- Fred Wilson