{"id":1404,"date":"2010-03-24T09:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/03\/the_white_house_wants_your_cop\/"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:53:40","slug":"the_white_house_wants_your_cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_white_house_wants_your_cop.php","title":{"rendered":"The White House wants your copyright thoughts…today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a bit late to the party and the invitation, but artists, arts organizations, and anyone who might label themselves a ‘creative professional’ should give a moment of thought and a speedy response to this call from the White House<\/a>:<\/p>\n

How many jobs depend on the existence of intellectual property? 
\nWhat are the greatest risks to health and safety?  We need better data
\non these questions and it is part of my job to figure out what the
\nanswers are.  We cannot do that without your help.  So, my office is
\nasking the public to give us information about the costs and the risks –
\nand then give us suggestions for what we could be doing better as a
\ngovernment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To gather this information, U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel posted a formal request<\/a> for feedback, with a deadline of TODAY. You can download the formal request here<\/a> (in PDF format), and you can send your comments, examples, and insights to intellectualproperty@omb.eop.gov<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It’s interesting that the entire focus of the request is ‘command and control,’ with the assumption that copyright constraints aren’t strong enough, or aren’t enforced enough. Anyone who draws on other expressions or experiences as the building blocks of their own expression might also wonder if the current constraints are too severe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a bit late to the party and the invitation, but artists, arts organizations, and anyone who might label themselves a ‘creative professional’ should give a moment of thought and a speedy response to this call from the White House: How many jobs depend on the existence of intellectual property?  What are the greatest risks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}