Political Quotes

“If the United States Congress, in this, so substantially diminishes this notion of contributory and vicarious liability and exempts people who are making money by playing other people's music, or maybe showing other people's movies, or in other ways using other people's products, if we exempt them in some ways, we drive a hole in our efforts to enforce American intellectual property rights overseas that is enormous. Think what the People's Republic of China could do with the amendment of the gentleman from Wisconsin. All they would have to do is say, okay, we are going to take these principles that the American Congress has adopted; there will be no vicarious and contributory liability. If you catch the individual, that is fine; otherwise, no, there is no liability. And if it is only incidental to some other use, there is going to be no liability. We severely threaten our ability to protect one of the major sources internationally by which America profits, and that is intellectual property.”