Internet activist, privacy protector, computer geek , and hog fan Lauren Weinstein (left) is up to no good again. This time he's trying to pull opposing factions in the digital content copyright debate together to find solutions to some tricky problems. He's calling it the Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative:
Announcing EEPI – Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative Announcing EEPI – Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com
March 25, 2005
I'm pleased to announce “EEPI” ( http://www.eepi.org ), a new initiative
aimed at fostering cooperation in the areas of electronic entertainment and
its many related issues, problems, and impacts.
I've teamed with 30+ year recording industry veteran Thane Tierney in this
effort to find cooperative solutions to technical, legal, policy, and other
issues relating to the vast and growing range of electronic technologies
that are crucial to the entertainment industry, but that also impact other
industries, interest groups, individuals, and society in major ways.
There are many interested parties, including record labels, film studios,
the RIAA, the MPAA, artists, consumers, intellectual freedom advocates,
broadcasters, manufacturers, legislators, regulators, and a multitude of
others.
The issues cover an enormous gamut from DVDs, CDs, and piracy issues to
multimedia cell phones, from digital video recorders to Internet file
sharing/P2P, from digital TV and the “broadcast flag” to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and “fair use” controversies.
Working together, rather than fighting each other, perhaps we can all find
some broadly acceptable paths that will be of benefit to everyone.
For more information, please see the EEPI Web site at:
http://www.eepi.org
A moderated public discussion list and an EEPI announcement list are now
available at the site.
Public participation is cordially invited. Thank you very much.