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'For many years we've vocally criticized a very questionable line of
arguments made by various lobbyists and (tragically) the US Commerce
Department, that if you look at so-called "IP intensive industries" and
see that those industries employ lots of people and are often
profitable, it therefore means that stronger copyright, patent and
trademark laws are good for the economy. There are all sorts of problems
with this argument, highlighted simply by the fact that the single
largest employment listed in one of these studies for an "IP intensive"
industry is grocery stores. It's somewhat comical to believe that
grocery stores employ 2.5 million people because of trademark law.'
Unfortunately the copyright industry has been pushing this myth in
Australia as well and seems to have managed to get our Attorney General
to buy it hook, line and sinker, so I hope we can use this report to
give the opposition some ammunition.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
