Thoughtful post about the Democratic Party's apparent lack of interest in reforming our obsolete intellectual property laws (IP). The author may be right in his speculation that Democrats may be afraid to take on Hollywood, where many of their backers work. However, he does not provide clear evidence to back his point, other than the fact that Howard Berman will chair the House IP subcommittee. Let's give the man the benefit of the doubt before we accuse him of serving only special interests. Still, this is an important topic, and we're grateful to Larry Lessig for bringing it up to our attention.

Hard to read for me and other people not rather informed about this issue(all those acronyms). Too bad because it seems important somehow. I may be off base, but it sounds like a corporate grab for control over content on the web ultimately. You know like they control what gets seen, heard and read in the MSM.

This is an issue that unites both conservatives and liberals from Red State to MyDD. Whether the political parties are worried about Hollywood or AT&T, they will be more worried about ordinary voters organizing to keep the Internet open for the sake of democracy. Blogs are more than just fund-raisers, as Rubber-Stamp Republicans have already found out.