FTC complaint flags NFL, MLB, studios for overstating copyright claims (ars technica)

Here's an ars technica article about a complaint filed by the Computer & Communications Industry Association - a group which includes Google, Microsoft, and Red Hat, among others. "The CCIA's complaint fingers the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBC Universal, Morgan Creek, DreamWorks, Harcourt Inc., and Penguin Group (USA) for deceptive trade practices, accusing them of systematically misrepresenting the rights of consumers to use copyrighted material. 'These warnings that we have been seeing for decades are false,' CCIA spokesperson Jake Ward told Ars Technica in a Monday interview. 'They are a misrepresentation of the law and a violation of consumers' rights.'"

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