13.02.2014 - 06:39 [ Techdirt ]

Another Friend Of The Recording Industry Joins The House Subcommittee On Courts, Intellectual Property And The Internet

There‘s a new ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, and it‘s another copyright maximalist. Mel Watt, the former ranking member and one of SOPA‘s biggest supporters, has moved on to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Before Mel Watt, there was subcommittee chair „Hollywood“ Howard Berman, whose nickname clearly spells out which side of the copyright argument he espoused.