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Commerce Department Pushing for New "Copyright Czar"

TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding the cost of piracy are being trotted out in an attempt to push through a new "Copyright Czar" position. "In urging President Bush to sign into law the ProIP bill, which would give him a copyright czar (something the Justice Department had said it it doesn't want), the US Chamber of Commerce is claiming that 750,000 American jobs have been lost to piracy. Yet, it doesn't cite where that number comes from."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/1638204&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/06/1638204"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/1638204&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/W1BvInIa8_54QKtCtSc0SLhECSo/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/W1BvInIa8_54QKtCtSc0SLhECSo/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/e_1PATzHT0Q" height="1" width="1"/>