U.S. Senator Says More Must Be Done to Protect IP
In a speech before the participants of the World Copyright Summit June 9th, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch called copyright piracy “the very antithesis of creativity—crippling growth and stifling innovation in its wake.”
A senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, Hatch is actively involved in legislative efforts to protect intellectual property. In his recent speech, Hatch emphasized the need for legislation to address performance rights and orphan works issues, and called a Swedish court’s conviction of the operators of the peer-to-peer file-sharing site Pirate Bay a “moral victory.”
Hatch also encouraged Internet Service Providers and copyright holders to work together to prevent Internet users from distributing unlicensed copyrighted content.
