Former White House ‘intellectual property czar’ jumps to anti-piracy lobby BSA

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“Just weeks after leaving the White House, Victoria Espinel will take over as the head of the Business Software Alliance, a group with a shameful past of overaggressive anti-piracy and pro-software patent positions, driven in large part by legacy software companies long past their innovation stage, and well into their ‘litigation’ against innovators stage. The organization tends to take its orders mainly from Microsoft and Autodesk, two proponents of very strong copyright and patent enforcement, because it helps those legacy companies ward off competitors and disruptive innovators.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130828/11481424336/former-white-house-ip-czar-immediately-jumps-ship-to-microsoft-driven-anti-piracy-lobbying-group-bsa.shtml

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