Today, Arts+Labs submitted comments to the IPEC in regard to the delvelopment of a joint strategic plan:
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"Arts+Labs, an alliance of the technology, content and creative communities, appreciates the opportunity to comment on the development of a strategic plan for aggressive enforcement of the intellectual property of U.S. rights holders. Arts+Labs' goal is a strong information economy, based on innovation, creativity and respect for the rights of all participants...
...Even in a world of "bits" and "bytes," the continued development of content is contingent on respect for creators' intellectual property. Authors, musicians, filmmakers, inventors, software writers, game developers, journalists and others who earn a living by creating content are entitled to control the use of their work and to a genuine opportunity to earn fair and adequate remuneration. Absent those assurances, the professional creators on which so much of our economy is based will be discouraged from new creative work. The result will be diminution in the volume and quality of online content and the loss of the general economic benefits that flow from this work."
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