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Partial list of corporate lickspittles who are allowed to know what's in the secret copyright treaty the Obama administration claims is a matter | |
Bowhuntress Offer Upgrade ![]() User ID: 631308 ![]() 03/16/2009 02:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Partial list of corporate lickspittles who are allowed to know what's in the secret copyright treaty the Obama administration claims is a matter Transparency - to those of the wealthy and corporations!!!! Perhaps that's who Obama meant transparency. For the companies who contributed to his campaign perhaps.. Remember yesterday's post about how the Obama administration had refused to release the details of a secret copyright treaty because doing so would compromise "national security?" Well, it turns out that there are plenty of people who are cleared to be privy to this "sensitive" document -- strangely, they all seem to work for giant copyright companies! Of course, they're allowed to know what's in the treaty -- but the public, activist groups, consumer rights groups, and the artists whom this treaty is supposed to protect are all forbidden from knowing what it says. What an embarrassment for an administration that holds itself out as an end to the corrupt, business-as-usual beltway fandango. Chairman , Mr. Eric H. Smith President International Intellectual Property Alliance Vice-Chairman Mr. Jacques J. Gorlin President The Gorlin Group Sandra M. Aistars, Esq. Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property Time Warner Inc. Kira M. Alvarez, Esq. Director, International Government Affairs Eli Lilly and Company Mark Chandler, Esq. Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary Cisco Systems, Inc. Ms. Erin L. Ennis Vice President The U.S.-China Business Council Francis (Frank) Z. Hellwig, Esq. Senior Associate, General Counsel Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. J. Anthony Imler, Ph.D. Director, Public Policy, Latin America Merck & Co., Inc. Ms. Mary A. Irace Vice President, Trade and Export Finance National Foreign Trade Council, Inc. Jeffrey P. Kushan, Esq. Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood LLP Representing Biotechnology Industry Organization Stevan D. Mitchell, Esq. Vice President, Intellectual Property Policy Entertainment Software Association Douglas T. Nelson, Esq. Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary CropLife America Timothy P. Trainer, Esq. President Global Intellectual Property Strategy Center, P.C. Representing the Thomas G. Faria Corporation Neil I. Turkewitz, Esq. Executive Vice President Recording Industry Association of America Ms. Susan C. Tuttle Governement Programs Executive IBM Corporation Mr. Herbert C. Wamsley Executive Director Intellectual Property Owners Association Ms. Anissa S. Whitten Trade Director Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. Ms. Deborah E. Wiley Senior Vice President John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Association of American Publishers, Inc. Shirley Zebroski, Ph.D Director, Legislative Affairs General Motors Corporation Who are the cleared advisors that have access to secret ACTA documents? [link to www.boingboing.net] partial list of corporate names allowed to know what is in secret copyright treaty Obama claims is matter of "national security". Looks like Obama's promise of "transparency" in government was D.O.A. (dead on arrival). ~ Treaties are matters of law in America - NO valid Treaty or law can be secret in America under the Constitution! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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