US Publishers and Alliance Back Congressional Letter on Copyright Restatement - Publishing Perspectives

I need some dark and a nap.

We're all still recuperating from the Christmas light decorating party day before yesterday. We told you it's a neighborhood contest. What's His Name likes a contest and gets into the Christmas light contest every year. We have lights on the gutters on the roof, around the windows, the door, the fence, the bushes in the front yard, and along the driveway. (Don't worry they're all LED lights.)

With all those lights outside shining in the windows, Panzer can't get any sleep, so he only took a short trip into the Catosphere this afternoon to the Publishing Perspectives site. With a little digging in the posts, our sleepy kitty found one about the copyright restatement project.

According to the post by Porter Anderson, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has joined the Copyright Alliance (CA) protesting the American Law Institute's (ALI) copyright restatement project. The "restatement" would be a rewording (rewriting) of the federal copyright law. Currently released information shows the ALI seems to support big corporations' interests instead of the creators of the material. Since copyright is a federal law, some members of Congress sent a letter to the ALI posing questions concerning the ALI's intentions.

Panzer says,"Who gave these humans the power to do that?"

Note: This is a h-u-m-o-n-g-o-u-s post.. Bring a gallon of cocoa and a dozen muffins for today's reading selection.

To read the post tootle over to Association of American Publishers