On Monday, we published a 4300-word comment of efforts by a MPAA and a members to criticise negotiations for a new UN covenant on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities. (Link here). The same day, Chris Dodd, a CEO of a MPAA, responded, with a 320-word blog (also in HuffPost, couple here) that EFF’s Maria Sutton described as deceptive and defensive. Manon Ress, whose mom became blind, remarkable a “MPAA privately interjection a EU and U.S. governments for screwing a blind people on their behalf.”

In a severe and decrease universe of Washington, D.C. politics, where a erosive impact of income is ever present, a actions of a MPAA are not even newsworthy. But for those of us who have not mislaid a ability for warn or outrage, it was notable, and value a reflection, not usually as regards a repairs a MPAA is inflicting and a exposed population, though as a magnitude of how degenerate is a stream domestic discourse in Washington, D.C.

How does a MPAA and a member companies like Disney (probably a many assertive association on this issue) mountain an conflict on a UN treaty, a primary beneficiaries of that are blind people vital in building countries, and not taint their brand, or beget a sight from members of Congress from possibly party?

How did a Obama administration concede itself to be pressured into hostile a positions it had permitted in 2011 and some even as recently as Feb 2013, meaningful that it was timorous advantages for blind people, and risking a finish disaster of a covenant negotiations? Isn’t there anyone in a White House who can take a low exhale and tell Disney CEO Robert A. Iger and a MPAA CEO Chris Dodd that they should be ashamed of themselves? Is a Obama administration still so focused on corporate fundraising that they have lost because they entered open use in a initial place?

More generally, because does a open continue to omit what Larry Lessig accurately describes as a root problem in a domestic life. Does a broader open see what we see, as regards a bowing and scrapping to corporate run groups that financial choosing campaigns? And if so, because does this not lead to broader and some-more effective calls for reform?

Campaign financial remodel is not a categorical emanate for many groups. But as a disaster to remodel debate financing systems continues to repairs a governance, and leads to startling failures to strengthen a public, in a end, it is everyone’s categorical issue.

It is also engaging that Christopher Dodd, a male who was innate into a family of payoff and change and began his career safeguarding consumers and weaker parties, so absolutely found himself a pointy indicate of an conflict on blind people, many of whom are poor.

And because has Bob Iger, a CEO of Disney, done it a priority to conflict a covenant for a blind? His mom was propagandize clergyman and his father a professor. Iger spent his life broadcasting information, and was unapproachable to have perceived a Ambassador for Humanity Award for “his care purpose in corporate citizenship.” Is this an instance of a lessons he schooled from his parents, or a corporate citizenship he promotes?

Why have Dodd and Iger, entrance from opposite initial starting places, finished adult in a same place, regulating their substantial talents and change to conflict such a exposed population, on an emanate of 0 mercantile impact to a suit design industry?

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