Dear Hollywood: The 'Stakeholders' For Copyright Policy Don't Fit In A Room

from the that's-one-big-room dept

Last week, we wrote about Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel first demanding a magic stop piracy button from Google, followed by his request to sit down and meet with "the government" and representatives of "Silicon Valley" in a room. As we responded, that meeting is going on already, and it's happening online with the public -- the more important stakeholder, whom Emanuel has totally left out of the equation.

Ali Sternburg points us to a tweet from Nate Otto, in which he basically makes the same point, but much more concisely:

I'm tired of Hollywooders thinking IP policy "stakeholders" fit in a room & don't include the public.

It's such a simple and important point that I wanted to repost it here. It needs to be repeated over and over again.

Ever since Hollywood lost the SOPA/PIPA fight, they keep claiming, over and over again, that Silicon Valley needs to get in a room with them. Chris Dodd has done it a bunch of times -- and each time we've asked why he doesn't actually go online and talk to the public. Now Ari Emanuel has done it too, and we need to repeat a paraphrase on Nate's tweet above.

Copyright's stakeholders don't fit in a room and must include the public, by definition

Any time we hear a demand for a company to do some sort of backroom deal on copyright, we need to remember and remind people:

Copyright's stakeholders don't fit in a room and must include the public, by definition

I doubt it will sink it, but perhaps if we remind them enough, they'll finally start to realize it.

Filed Under: ari emanuel, chris dodd, hollywood, nate otto, pipa, silicon valley, sopa