[Infowarrior] - Spinning IP maximalism as protection against 'fake news'

[Richard Forno]

Purporting to discuss improving the Copyright Office's internal IT infrastructure, this op-ed writer spends much time talking about how enhanced copyright controls are the journalistic industry's protection against "fake news" and the "decay of institutions a free country relies on."   Free stuff online is apparently "fake news" and mainly just clickbait anyway, says the author.   (And also, it's the internet's fault that everyone's suffering.)

The author?  An exec from the Copyright Clearance Center and copyright industry lobbyist.  As if the MPAA/RIAA shills weren't bad enough at grasping at straws to make tenuous connections to try and preserve their antequated business models and self-perceived legitimacy and authority in the world.  But history shows we should expect such Beltway antics (soon to be hysteria, probably) from this particular industry.  Nice try, though.  --rick

See:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/325009-is-there-a-link-between-fake-news-and-modernizing-the-copyright