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SigEx Ventures : Tech group files complaint against sports leagues
by Delia Cruceru

Computer & Communications Industry Association (CIAA), a trade group with members like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, RedHat, and others that promotes "open markets, open systems, and full, fair, and open competition" filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission alleging that two major professional sport leagues and other four corporations "violate consumers' fair-use rights under U.S. copyright law." The CIAA complaint is against the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBC Universal, Morgan Creek, DreamWorks, Harcourt Inc., and Penguin Group (USA), accusing them of mispresenting the rights of consumers to use copyrighted material. Ed Black, CCIA's president says that warning on broadcasts, books and DVDs are "not to educate consumers, but to intimidate them. Certain warnings mislead consumers." "No deceptive message may be more widespread, more pervasive, more ubiquitous in our vast nation than the copyright warning which tells you that you have no rights." The CIAA wants that the Federal Trade Commission to stop those organizations to use warnings that violate people rights and to come with a new plan to keep away these mispresentations from happening again as well as a model copyright notice that is "accurate, balanced, and consistent with all provisions of the US Copyright Act and Federal Trade Commission Act" to educate consumers on their fair-use rights.

related story: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135340-c,copyright/article.html

by Delia Cruceru for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

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