Groups Urge Balanced IP Appointments

A coalition of consumer advocates, library associations, and trade groups representing the technology, consumer electronics, and telecommunications industries wrote to President Obama Thursday urging him to make sure his future appointments to intellectual property positions "reflect the diversity of stakeholders affected by IP policy." The letter points out that several appointees to positions that oversee the formulation and implementation of IP policy have previously represented "the concentrated copyright industries." The letter was signed by the American Library Association; Center for Democracy and Technology; Computer and Communications Industry Association; Consumer Electronics Association; Consumers Union; Electronic Frontier Foundation; Public Knowledge and others.