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I missed that, so thanks for highlighting that one. And that's pretty interesting, because I'd imagine that pornography producers are amongst those whose IP is
by boredguy8 15y ago
I missed that, so thanks for highlighting that one. And that's pretty interesting, because I'd imagine that pornography producers are amongst those whose IP is most often stolen. But you're right: according to Forbes, "The [Porn / Adult Entertainment] industry is tiny next to broadcast television ($32.3 billion in 1999 revenue, according to Veronis Suhler), cable television ($45.5 billion), the newspaper business ($27.5 billion), Hollywood ($31 billion), even to professional and educational publishing ($14.8 billion)." http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html
- dangrossman 15y agoThe porn industry has grown a lot since 2001. The rationale given for the amendment was that without it, the AG would spend all its time working pornography cases, as they'd be the majority of copyright infringement occurring.
- Zirro 15y agoHow did they justify it, though? Did they explicitly say that "our industry is more important"?
- jgeralnik 15y agoThey just asserted that the government should not be working towards helping pornography producers because the material is distasteful.
- tomflack 15y ago"Most of the copyright abuse is happening in this area... so let's ignore it in favour of the concerns of a larger group of patrons." Fantastic.