DOJ: Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski Delivers Remarks at the Thirteenth Law Enforcement and Industry Meeting on Intellectual Property Enforcement

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery

Good afternoon. It’s a great honor to welcome you to the 13th edition of the Law Enforcement and Industry Meeting on Intellectual Property Enforcement. 

This conference offers a great opportunity for CCIPS, the Department, and each of our law enforcement colleagues gathered at the table today to discuss our shared efforts in IP enforcement, and to hear your comments about the latest successes and challenges.  It’s an event that benefits all of us.

Since this conference first began more than a decade ago, we have seen dramatic changes in IP crime:

• Copyright pirates have moved from peddling individual copies of movies, music, and software on street corners or offering individual downloads online, to operating technologically advanced, multi-national streaming services that generate millions of dollars in illicit profits. 
   
• These services also pose a risk to consumers by coupling malicious code with the stolen content.
   
• Trademark counterfeiters are leveraging the power of online sales to copy and sell knock-offs of any product imaginable, using recognized streams of commerce upon which Americans have come to rely. 
   
• These counterfeiters deliver substandard and sometimes hazardous goods to an unsuspecting public.
   
• Finally, the theft of trade secrets has morphed from individualized action into the highly-refined, publically-stated goal of certain nation-states that see themselves as America’s economic adversaries rather than as responsible trading partners.

So what is the Department doing to keep up in this ever-changing landscape?

First and foremost, we employ the expertise of attorneys across the Department and our federal prosecutors across the country to bring high-impact cases to deter IP crime.

I wanted to highlight some examples of recent prosecutions that show the diligence and creativity of our investigators and prosecutors in bringing these cases.

Online Copyright Infringement – Jetflicks

In August, we announced charges in the Eastern District of Virginia against eight Las Vegas residents for running two of the largest unauthorized streaming services in the country. 

One of the services – known as Jetflicks – allegedly obtained infringing television programs by using sophisticated computer scripts to scour pirate websites around the world and collect the television shows. 

It then made the programming available for paying Jetflicks subscribers to stream and download, often just one day after the original episodes aired.

The scheme, as charged, resulted in the loss of millions of dollars by television program and motion picture copyright owners. 

This case demonstrates how IP criminals are leveraging technology to operate at unprecedented scale and speed. 

The Jetflicks case is indicative of other technological challenges we are facing in copyright, such as the explosive growth of internet streaming devices, or “set top boxes,” which likewise can deliver massive amounts of pirated content.  

CCIPS Senior Counsel Matt Lamberti, who is working with the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. Attorney’s Office on the Jetflicks prosecution, is here with us today.

In addition to unlimited free content, these services will often install malicious software that can compromise the computer security of unwitting consumers, sending passwords, financial information and other personal information to be distributed for profit on the internet. 

Trafficking In Counterfeit Goods – Container Shipping

The Department of Justice also has obtained a slew of guilty pleas in a massive 22-defendant counterfeit importation conspiracy charged in the Eastern District of New York, resulting in the dismantling of one of the largest counterfeit goods trafficking rings ever uncovered in the United States.

These conspirators trafficked not drugs nor electronics, but counterfeit luxury goods that were made in China: fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Michael Kors handbags, wallets, belts, perfume, and other merchandise. 

This operation is significant in both its scope and scale—had the items been legitimate, it is estimated that the value would be over $1 billion in total, making it one of the largest counterfeit luxury goods cases in U.S. history.

Members of the conspiracy engaged in multiple schemes to avoid detection, pretending to be representatives of legitimate importation companies, submitting false paperwork to customs authorities, and lying about the nature of the goods in customs declarations.

Once the goods were in the U.S., conspirators sold those counterfeit items in multiple jurisdictions across the country, and laundered millions of dollars of proceeds.

To date, 20 defendants have pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of New York and New York state court in this investigation and related cases.  CCIPS Senior Counsel James Yoon, one of the prosecutors working on Operation TMG, is in the audience today.

Trade Secret Theft – Syntactic Foam

This past summer, following a nine-day jury trial, an engineer and former employee of a Houston company was convicted of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets in federal court in the District of Columbia. 

This prosecution represented the joint effort of FBI counterintelligence agents, the DC U.S. Attorney’s Office and prosecutors from CCIPS, and the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Section.

The defendant, Shan Shi, and four co-defendants were charged with conspiring to steal trade secrets from a business in the United States on behalf of a company in China that was engaged in manufacturing syntactic foam, a high-performance, naval-grade product with commercial and military uses that is essential for deep-sea oil and gas drilling.

Shan Shi and his coconspirators went to great lengths to cash in on the Chinese government’s desire to obtain syntactic foam technology.

During the course of the trial, the jury heard about the economic incentives in place in China that facilitate and even encourage the theft of American IP where it meets a perceived technological need of the Chinese state.

We need to focus future enforcement efforts on counteracting these incentives.

International Engagement – The China Initiative

Whether it is manufactured goods violating trademarks and counterfeits, or the theft of valuable trade secret information, we at the Department have our eyes wide open when it comes to the common denominator in the vast majority of these cases:  China. 

China’s state-provided economic incentives, vast manufacturing base, and limited domestic enforcement combine to create an environment that encourages IP theft.

And China is at the forefront of the conversation as we address the uptick in trade secret thefts on behalf of foreign corporations or foreign government interests. 

In November 2018, I stood together with then-Attorney General Sessions to announce the Department’s new “China Initiative” – which has proceeded full steam ahead under the leadership of Attorney General Barr. 

Under the China Initiative, the Criminal Division, National Security Division, FBI, and U.S. Attorney’s Offices have redoubled our efforts to investigate Chinese companies and individuals for the theft of trade secrets. 

We have increased our outreach efforts to U.S. Attorneys with materials to raise awareness of these threats. 

We have fostered a dialogue between the government and private sector to ensure that, whether we are dealing with counterfeiting, trade secret theft, a data breach, or ransomware, the Department is well-positioned to obtain evidence from industry. 

And we have sought to find opportunities to better fight against threats to supply chains for components used in military and government systems and in critical civilian infrastructure. 

Each of these efforts stem from the recognition that we must not stand by and allow our intellectual property to be stolen.

Expansion of the ICHIP Program

While we continue to focus on China as a source of IP violations, we would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the impact on American companies of IP and high-tech crime around the world.

In 2006, just before the original IP Industry Conference, DOJ placed the first IP Law Enforcement Coordinator in Bangkok, Thailand, to provide training and technical assistance to build the capacity of our foreign counterparts to combat IP crimes.

Working with our colleagues in the State Department, we have been forward-leaning in seeking to enhance our relationships with foreign counterparts – specifically in combatting IP and cybercrimes – to level the global playing field and reduce the number of safe havens available to IP criminals. 

Last year at this meeting, I announced the expansion and re-naming of the Department’s experts posted around the globe, now known as International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property or “ICHIPs.”

Our ICHIPs deliver basic and advanced law enforcement training, case-based mentoring, and other technical assistance to investigators, prosecutors, judges, and other government officials. 

They have been instrumental in developing successful cases in their regions, and turning those cases into sustainable models for continued enforcement.

I’m thrilled that with the support of the State Department, we have been able to expand the ICHIP program, and I am proud to introduce to you today the two Washington, DC-based ICHIPs with subject matter expertise in dark markets, cryptocurrencies, and internet-based fraud.  

Michael Chu hails from the Houston U.S. Attorney’s Office, and will be serving as our internet-based fraud and public health and safety subject matter expert. 

John Ghose joins our ICHIP Network from the Atlanta U.S. Attorney’s Office, and will offer subject matter expertise on virtual currencies and dark markets. 

In addition, we also have our incoming Eastern Europe ICHIP Scott Keirin in attendance today.  Scott will be moving later this month from the Portland, Oregon U.S. Attorney’s Office to Bucharest, Romania.

Looking Forward

In recent months I’ve had the opportunity to interact with representatives across the many industries in the U.S. that rely on intellectual property to succeed.

Based on those discussions, I’m acutely aware of the challenges facing each of us in the room today, whether from the perspective of a company trying to compete in a global marketplace or government agencies charged with the responsibility to protect IP.

Several themes run through these discussions, and I’d like to close with areas where I believe we can work together in the coming year to address the challenges:

• Existing laws do not always address the conduct that IP criminals are engaging in today. Or, put differently, smart criminals may seek to avoid serious repercussions by developing new technologies or security measures to skirt legal authorities.
   
• We need to be creative and cooperative in thinking about possible solutions, whether through looking at additional charging strategies, or considering legislative amendments.
   
• We will never be in a position where we can prosecute our way out of the problem of IP crime. However, by working together to identify the worst actors, we can have a measurable effect on decreasing the profitability of criminal IP infringement.
   
• Gatherings such as our meeting today provide an excellent opportunity to share the work that we have been doing on the enforcement side, and to hear from you about developing trends and new concerns.

I trust that today’s conversation with the experts gathered around the table will be as informative as it has been in each of the prior meetings.

I look forward to hearing back from CCIPS about your input today, and in continuing to work together to combat IP crime in the coming year.

Thank you for your attention.

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JUDICIARY: Markup of H.R. 1423, H.R. 1236, H.R. 1186, H.R. 2708, H.R. 4018, H.R. 2426 - Parental Rights Has Entered

There is a special bill about federal employees and arbitration. 

Hmmmmm.......

#MeToo is very, very interesting. 

They are talking about attorney fees.

Oh lookie! Everyone got hair cuts and spiffed up.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to my world. The committee is talking about parental rights by making guns and children fungible under the Second Amendment.

The only thing that was not said was "parental rights".

I heard, verbatum, the legal arguments used almost 20 years ago, here, in Michigan, when it all started.

They are talking about mental health laws through ex parte hearings to take away your gun, where you are guilty until proven innocent, without right to face one's accuser.....sounds familiar anyone?

We are now officially talking about Child Protective Services.

They are still going. It is 9:22 p.m. EST with no end in sight because tomorrow is 911. 

How to stop gun violence? 

My Solution: STOP STEALIN' THE CHILDREN, LAND AND VOTES.

No one wants to discuss this because Judiciary would have to #sayhisname.

They were using blaming "mental health" where the other side said, "where is the mental health money?" (aka Medicaid Expansion).

Text of Legislation

• H.R. 1423, the “Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act” or “FAIR Act"
• H.R. 1236, the “Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2019”
• H.R. 1186, the “Keep Americans Safe Act”
• H.R. 2708, the “Disarm Hate Act”
• H.R. 4018, “To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes”
• H.R. 2426, the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019” or the “CASE Act of 2019”

Amendments

• H.R. 1423 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute - Nadler #1
• H.R. 1236 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute - Nadler #2
• H.R. 1186 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute - Nadler #3
• H.R. 2708 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute - Nadler #4
• H.R. 4018 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute - Nadler #5
• H.R. 2426 Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute - Nadler #6

116th Congress

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What Do Google, Waymo, Uber, AI & DOJ Have In Common?

Q: What do Google, Waymo, Uber & DOJ have in Common?

A: Anthony Levandowski, who may or may not have been set up to take the fall for bigger and nastier dirt like intellectual property theft; or,

B: Detroit Land Bank Authority, et al?

However did these AI start ups get all that money and land?

I wonder what happened to all those jobs.

We should as Mike Duggan.

#perkinscoiesucks

Former Google self-driving car engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A former Google self-driving car engineer was charged Tuesday with 33 counts of stealing or trying to steal the company's trade secrets related to the technology, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

The initial accusation that Anthony Levandowski stole secret materials from Google in 2015 rocked Silicon Valley and led to a blockbuster civil trial last year.

Levandowski, who is expected to appear in San Jose federal court Tuesday, could face up to a decade in prison if convicted.

“All of us, generally speaking, are free to move from job to job, but what we cannot do is stuff our pockets on the way out the door,” U.S. Attorney David Anderson said at a press conference in San Jose.

Levandowski, 39, was allowed to self-surrender, which he did at the San Jose federal courthouse. Anderson would not comment on the Justice Department probe of Uber.

Miles Ehrlich and Ismail Ramsey, lawyers for Levandowski, said they will fight the charges.

"This cash rehashes claims already discredited in a civil case that settled more than a year and a half ago," the lawyers said in a written statement handed out at the courthouse. "The downloads at issue occurred while Anthony was still working at Google — when he and his team were authorized to use the information."

In 2017, Waymo — Google's self-driving car operation — sued Uber, and while Levandowski never testified at the trial the following year, his absence loomed large over it.

The fight began in February 2017, when Waymo publicly alleged that former star engineer Levandowski “downloaded over 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files for Waymo’s various hardware systems,” including a crucial laser-based system known as LiDAR.

In federal charges unsealed Tuesday, the government claims that in December 2015, Levandowski took nearly 10 gigabytes of secret data from his employer.

“Silicon Valley is not the Wild West," said John Bennett, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Francisco bureau, at the same press conference. "The fast-paced and competitive environment does not mean that federal laws can be ignored."

Levandowski abruptly left Google early in 2016, founding the company Otto, which was quickly acquired by Uber for $680 million — an astonishing amount for a company that was only several months old.

In 2017, during hearings in the run-up to the civil trial, Levandowski fought hard to keep silent. He repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment, protecting himself against self-incrimination and was threatened with being fired rather than comply with court orders.

According to former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's July 2017 deposition, Levandowski downloaded the files as an "insurance policy" to protect a $120 million bonus from Google. But Kalanick was blunt with his analysis of his then-employee’s behavior: "That's pretty f---ing dumb."

After four days of trial in February 2018, the lawsuit ended in a surprise settlement.

Anderson said Uber and Google's Waymo were both supportive of the investigation and provided materials to the government

Since being fired from Uber in May 2017, Levandowski has gone on to found a related company called Pronto, which he announced in December 2018. Its top executives include veterans from Uber, Otto and Google.

Pronto announced on Tuesday that Robbie Miller, the company's chief safety officer, would be taking over as chief executive.

Waymo plans final assembly on self-driving cars in Detroit; will need 100-400 workers

Waymo has picked Detroit for final assembly of its self-driving vehicles.

The company, once known as Google's self-driving car project and now a leader in the push to develop autonomous vehicles, had previously said it was scouting locations in southeast Michigan but did not name a specific city.

CEO John Krafcik revealed Detroit as the company's choice in a blog post scheduled to publish Tuesday titled, "Making Waymos in Motor City." It refers to being "up and running" this year. 

"Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve found the perfect facility in Detroit. We will partner with American Axle & Manufacturing to repurpose an existing facility, bringing a workforce back to an area where jobs in the automotive industry were recently lost," according to the post.

A company spokeswoman said the Detroit facility will be where the company integrates Waymo's self-driving hardware and software systems into Chrysler Pacificas and Jaguar I-Paces for its commercial ride-hailing fleet.

A Michigan Economic Development Corp. memo had said the project would involve the creation of at least 100 jobs with a potential for 400 jobs and a capital investment of $13.6 million. Waymo, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent, had requested an $8 million Michigan Business Development Program grant.

Waymo is to lease and repurpose an existing facility on the American Axle and Manufacturing campus on Holbrooke where American Axle has its world headquarters, Detroit Business office and Advanced Technology Development Center. The company notes that it ended production of front axles there in 2012.

The location was most recently being used as sequencing center for a local parts supplier, and American Axle recently moved back into the facility with business operations in the administrative portion of the building, according to the company.

Chris Son, American Axle vice president of marketing and communications, said in a statement that “we are excited to partner with Waymo and be a part of bringing future automotive technology to our Detroit campus."

There had been some speculation that General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant, which is scheduled to be idled in 2020, could be in play, although that offered considerably more space than the 200,000 square feet Waymo was seeking. In addition, GM's Cruise unit is in competition with Waymo on self-driving vehicle development.

Waymo has billed its project as the "world's first factory 100%-dedicated to the mass production of L4 autonomous vehicles." The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, citing the Society of Automotive Engineers, lists Level 4 as high automation, one step below full automation.

"The vehicle is capable of performing all driving functions under certain conditions. The driver may have the option to control the vehicle," according to the definition of Level 4.

GM has produced "near Level 4" Chevy Bolts for test purposes at its Orion Assembly Plant.

'Center of the auto industry'

Krafcik thanked a range of individuals and entities for their assistance in the location effort, including Mayor Mike Duggan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, former Gov. Rick Snyder, American Axle and even Dan Gilbert's Bedrock development company.

Both Duggan and Whitmer were quoted in Krafcik's piece. Duggan said the "announcement by Waymo shows that the city of Detroit remains at the center of the future of the auto industry" and Whitmer noted that "Waymo is continuing the city’s momentum and further cementing Michigan as a leader in mobility and the epicenter of advanced automotive manufacturing."

Krafcik cited  metro Detroit's automotive industry strengths as a key reason for focusing on the area.

"We wanted this facility to benefit from a location in southeast Michigan — the heart of the American automotive industry — and its strong talent base. We began looking for a facility that would allow us to quickly get up and running by mid-2019 while offering us the flexibility to continue to grow and expand our operations in Michigan over time and where there was a strong pool of talent across engineering, operations and fleet coordination," Krafcik wrote.

He noted that "we’re thrilled to join Detroit’s vibrant community, helping to play a role in the future of the automotive industry in the city that started it all."

The factory will add to Waymo's presence and connections in southeast Michigan and nearby Ontario. Waymo has about 20 employees in the Novi area and a partnership with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, which supplies Windsor-made Chrysler Pacifica minivans.

FCA plans

The news is the second announcement this year related to auto manufacturing in Detroit. 

Fiat Chrysler in February announced a $4.5 billion expansion in Wayne and Macomb counties, expected to result in 5,000 jobs.

The plan includes a new Jeep plant at the company's idled Mack Avenue Engine factory and an expansion of the Jefferson North Assembly Plant. That deal is pending the City of Detroit assembling 200 acres to complete FCA's needed footprint. The 60-day deadline to complete that under the city's agreement with FCA is this week. 

Earlier this month, the city said it was still negotiating the last piece of property needed with the Moroun family. Through its Crown Enterprise real estate arm, the family owns the 80-acre former Budd plant site near Charlevoix and Conner on the east side. Crown currently leases that site to Chrysler for use as a parking lot for new vehicles produced at its Jefferson North Assembly Plant.

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The Psyoptic Of Michael Jackson - Stealin' Of Legacies - Do You Know Where The Congressional Black Servers Are?

https://www.michaeljacksonslegacy.org/

Michael Jackson gave to the Congressional Black Caucus, but there is no record of what they did with the money?

Do you know where the Congressional Black Caucus servers are?

If you do, I would strongly encourage you to call DC Capitol Police, or the FBI if you are out in District for summer recess.

Not one penny went to any civil rights organizations, scholarships or children's charities he set up?

His legacy was attacked but not diminished.

It is an American tradition when it comes to stealin' legacies, under the law of the chattels.

If they can use child welfare NGOs for stealin' the children, the land and the votes, well, why not Raymone Bain?

She is calling for a boycott if HBO does not stop promoting its propaganda about Michael Jackson.

I know the Michael Jackson sex scandal strategically broke out at the same time of the largest settlement in U.S. history on copyright theft with the original writer of the Terminator.

We all knew it was a cover op because the media buried the story.

The ruling is, below.

Very few know of the fight of Works For Hire.

Raymone Bain's press conference reportedly centers around a mandate made by the late pop star in 2006, three years before his death. No further details have been released other than that the mandate has to do with preserving the controversial star's legacy.

As the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed, I am calling this Operation Stealin' - #coloredrevolution for the following reasons:

• The press conference was empty;
• Michael Jackson has never used the african american label;
• She advocated a boycott with no other organizational or individual support;
• Jesse Jackson does not like me and I do not like Jesse Jackson;
• The website is cheezy; 
• The foundation has pictures of Haiti shacks and Sponsor a Child on the same page; 
• It is registered in the UK; 
• It is a foreign corporation, just like the foreign corporations that stole his money; 
• Michael Jackson would never approve of anything this tacky; 
• His family was not there; 
• She used a cut out of Michael Jackson;
• She dropped Trump's name;
• She stated that Michael Jackson was working on bringing HIV drugs to Haiti and Africa, which is probably CHAI;
• I smell Her Flatulent Boviness because she talked about how much he gave to the Congressional Black Caucus;
• And Raymone Bain previously sued Michael Jackson's estate for $44,000,000 and lost.

For these reasons alone, I am calling this stealin'  and a #coloredrevolution.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Raymone+Bain

Michael Jackson's Former Publicist Raymone Bain: There Was No Intervention

Raymone Bain, the former longtime publicist for Michael Jackson, has said there is no truth to rumors that have surfaced in the media since the pop star's death, claiming that members of the Jackson family staged a failed intervention for the pop star in 2007.

"It is not true," Raymone told Access Hollywood'sBilly Bush in a new interview.

Raymone, who filed suit against the King of Pop earlier this year for $44 million over claims he failed to pay her for her publicity services and more, said a meeting with the family took place in 2007, but it was business related.

"I recall in February, there was a meeting with Mr. Jackson and his sisters and brothers about a concert," she recounted. "There was a concert promoter who accompanied them there. That is the meeting that I… am aware of… I know nothing else about any other intervention."

Raymone also shot down rumors that Michael's family members – including his mother Katherine – were shut out of the pop star's life after the alleged intervention, telling Billy the family were always involved in Michael's life.

"During the time that I represented Michael Jackson, he had communications all of the time with his mother and his family," she said. "I don't know of a time when Michael Jackson did not have access to his mother — under my watch. I cannot speak for last year and prior to or after my tenure with Mr. Jackson. But I do know that he loved his mother, he loved his father, he loved his sisters and brothers unconditionally. And Mrs. Jackson and his family had access to Michael Jackson."

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DEFANGO: An Open Secret - Demon Identity Exposed #Hydra3301 #RP2PB #Qteam - The Art Of Taking Down Predictive Modeling Crappers - Happy Foster Care Propaganda Month

If you bear false witness to the heavens, they shall fall.

The Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed heralds cyber-accolades her Wondering Monk, In The Black Hoodie, Just Wandering Through The Cyber-Forest, Defango, who presents another work of art.

Predictive Modeling Crappers operate out of our universities, promoting foreign interests by having their research funded by private foundations to create your belief systems strictly for the purposes of educating the masses in new theories and social norms to cover up their institutional operations of stealin'.

It is called propaganda and destroys the national treasuries of history.

Our great repositories of knowledge exist as legacies, to obviate for the best interests of our posterity, the children, but now, there are people who are so desperate to function in society, having been shunned by the contents of their character, they will do, or in this instance, say, anything to keep a roof over their heads.

Social psychology is how political campaigns operate because it teaches how to identify and target populations, but now, the original sources are equipped with the exact same tools that are used to interfere in elections.

The 2016 election interference was not with memes; it was with cyber-psyops such as this stratified population who generated a false narrative which was fed into the national and international news networks, popular culture to falsely advise our elected officials to make law to promulgate a foreign, corporate invasion through manufacturing an insurrection.

I can easily prove, with one hashtag, that these individuals, in this particular network, are without any concept of ethics when giving public testimony, via Youtube, Twitter & Facebook, which is part of the public record in the U.S. Copyright Office, which is used to advise our Congress, Executive, and Judiciary.

They refuse to #sayhisname by bearing false witness to the heavens, or, in this instance, the public record.

So, to Tracy Beanz, Airforce Annie, and the rest of those who profit from the vulnerable by regurgitating  the prophecies of that random letter of the alphabet to execute this national insurrection for foreign interests, keep on making those videos for I shall ensure that your legacies are preserved!

Remember, boys and girls, smile because it is all about preserving the annals of history through multiple repositories for attestation.

Mueller did not bear false witness to the heavens.

I formally enter this into my public record.

#maytheheavensfall

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Library Of Congress International Database Of Obviation

Always remember to cite your sources because now, there is no excuse.

As our National Archives have been selectively recorded and strategically purged, the time has come for an international database which can easily be achieved through blockchain technologies.

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OIG Library of Congress Audit On IT Patent Stealin' - First Of Many

There is a second report which has yet to be released to the public.

The Lady In The Hat and her crew
 preserving the annals of history from stealin'.

For everything you ever wanted to know about how they steal copyrights, go here.

The Library of Congress is exactly what it says, the library of congress.

There is a new beta crowdsource project which allows the people to transcribe, edit and review specific archives, like constituency letters to Lincoln, for public sharing.

Public databases are exactly what it is supposed to be preserved, but the Library of Congress has much more potential.

The doctrine of copyright started with the concept of parental rights under canon law of chattels in dealing with ownership of anything one has produced, including children in what is 6th century Ireland through St. Columba:

The powerful stimulus given to Irish learning by St. Patrick in the previous century was now beginning to burgeon. Columba himself dearly loved books, and spared no pains to obtain or make copies of Psalters, Bibles, and other valuable manuscripts for his monks. His former master Finnian had brought back from Rome the first copy of St. Jerome's Psalter to reach Ireland. Finnian guarded this precious volume jealously, but Columba got permission to look at it, and surreptitiously made a copy for his own use. Finnian, on being told of this, laid claim to the copy. Columba refused to give it up, and the question of ownership was put before Ring Diarmaid, Overlord of Ireland. His curious decision in this early "copyright" case went against Columba. "To every cow her calf," reasoned the King, "and to every book its son-book. Therefore the copy you made, O Colum Cille, belongs to Finnian." Columba was soon to have a more serious grievance against the King. Prince Curnan of Connaught, who had fatally injured a rival in a hurling match and had taken refuge with Columba, was dragged from his protector's arms and slain by Diarmaid's men, in defiance of the rights of sanctuary.

But, alas, the meanies keep stealin' the legacies and the assets of our national treasury by universally applying that crap called privatization to all humans as "work for hire".

Copyright is in the Library of Congress which means there is no law enforcement powers because that would be found in the Executive Branch, like the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, but the actual patent documents are warehoused, for lack of a better term, in the Library of Congress.

For all the fun stuff on what they do with patents, you can find here.

FUN FACT! DETROIT IS THE FIRST CITY TO HAVE A SATELLITE PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE

ANOTHER FUN FACT! PROPERTY OF THE DETROIT LAND BANK AUTHORITY IS FILED AS A PATENT

ONE MORE FUN FACT! PRIVATE CORPORATIONS HAVE PATENTS ON HUMANS DNA & FBI HAS THE DATABASE

Just think of all the possibilities of linking everything up to an individual through DNA, if only they would stop stealin'.

Congress uses the library to obviate policy and law based upon precedent.

There seems to be a rash of Meanies who like to steal from the library, along with those who help steal from the library, like Bob.

But, hey, what do I know?

Security for patents remains nonexistent says Inspector General

I know this is what I call an IT gap in LOC.

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JUDICIARY: Goodlatte, Nadler Applaud House Passage of Judiciary Committee’s Bipartisan Music Licensing Legislation

Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act to be Signed into Law 

Washington, D.C.(H.R. 1551), bipartisan legislation that updates several key provisions of U.S. copyright law regarding music licensing.  This consensus legislation is a product of the House Judiciary Committee’s comprehensive copyright review and was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Vice Chairman Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), former House Judiciary Committee Chairman and current Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), and Representative Ted Deutch (D-Fla.).

Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Nadler applauded today’s vote in the statements below.

Chairman Goodlatte: “Today’s House passage of the bipartisan Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act is a major victory for American music creators, music distributors, and the music listening public.  This legislation, which modernizes our music copyright laws so music creators are fairly compensated for their works, finally brings our music laws into the digital age.

“I appreciate the hard work of the many House and Senate Judiciary Committee Members who came together on this legislative package.  Music has such an immense impact on all of our daily lives and with this important legislation headed to the President’s desk, we will help ensure the sustainability of the evolving American music industry for decades to come.”

Ranking Member Nadler: “I am proud that the Music Modernization Act will now head to the President’s desk. This bill will update the law to better serve both creators and digital music providers. Virtually all of the major industry stakeholders came together to support this bill. I am particularly pleased that this bill includes several measures included in the Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which I introduced the last two Congresses. Under the leadership of Chairman Goodlatte, we have joined together on a bipartisan basis to modernize the music licensing system. We have seized this historic opportunity to resolve some longstanding inequities in the music marketplace by helping digital services more efficiently license and distribute musical works, while ensuring artists, songwriters, and other music creators receive fair market value for their work.”

Key Provisions of the Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act include:

Title I – Music Modernization Act  

• Reflects how modern digital music services operate by creating a blanket licensing system to quickly license and pay for musical work copyrights
• Discourages music litigation that generates legal settlements in favor of simply ensuring that artists and copyright owners are paid in the first place without such litigation
• Ends the flawed U.S. Copyright Office bulk notice of intent system that allows royalties to not be paid
• Implements uniform rate setting standards to be used by the Copyright Royalty Board for all music services
• Shifts the costs of the new licensing collective created by the bill to those who benefit from the collective – the licensees
• Updates how certain rate court cases are assigned in the Southern District of New York

Title II — Compensating Legacy Artists for their Songs, Service, and Important Contributions to Society (CLASSICS) Act  

• Provides that performers who recorded songs before 1972 can finally be paid for their works (currently, only performers who recorded songs after 1972 are paid for their works)

Title III — Allocation for Music Producers (AMP) Act  

• Ensures that record producers, sound engineers, and other creative professionals receive compensation for their work

Nothing about Corporate Shape Shifiting on the Royalties but that it is a matter for a different jurisdiction.

'Truly a Historic Moment': Music Business Reacts to Music Modernization Act Becoming Law

The Music Modernization Act was signed into law on Thursday by a clearly exuberant President Trump. "I've been reading about this for many years and never thought I'd be involved in it, but I got involved in it," he said of the historic legislation, which passed with unanimous support in both chambers of Congress after years of efforts by the music industry and lawmakers.

At the signing ceremony, Trump was surrounded by a smattering of supportive artists including Kid Rock, John Rich and Mike Love, along with the two Republican lawmakers whose names are officially attached to the law, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia.

While Trump did thank members of the industry in attendance, he only mentioned one executive: Recording Academy Neil Portnow, whom he referred to as "big stuff." Short speeches were delivered by several of the artists, including Rock, Rich, Love and soul legend Sam Moore.

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Here are the official reactions to the new law from key execs and organizations:

Mitch Glazier, RIAA president: "The Music Modernization Act is now the law of the land, and thousands of songwriters and artists are better for it.  The result is a music market better founded on fair competition and fair pay. The enactment of this law demonstrates what music creators and digital services can do when we work together collaboratively to advance a mutually beneficial agenda. It's a great day for music. We hope fans across the country will join with us in celebration and PLAY IT LOUD."

David Israelite, NMPA president & CEO: "The Music Modernization Act is finally the law of the land.  We are incredibly grateful for the Members of Congress who passed the MMA and the President for signing it. Songwriters have for too long labored without seeing fair rates and receiving all that they deserve, and for the first time in history, the music industry has partnered with the tech industry to fix these systemic problems. As we embark on supporting and helping build the critical structures within the MMA, we are humbled by the extraordinary progress propelled by compromise and the unprecedented political involvement of music creators. Today is about their future and this bill stands as a great statement on what can be done when we work together."

Neil Portnow, Recording Academy president and CEO: "As we celebrate the harmony and unity that got us here, we applaud the efforts of the thousands of performers, songwriters, and studio professionals who rallied for historic change to ensure all music creators are compensated fairly when their work is used by digital and satellite music services," he said in a statement. "We thank the members of Congress who championed this issue throughout the past several years to bring music law into the 21st century."

Elizabeth Matthews, ASCAP CEO: "Thanks to the unrelenting efforts of our ASCAP music creator and publisher members, industry partners and champions in Congress, a more sustainable future for songwriters is finally within reach. The MMA's unanimous passage in the House and Senate proves that the power of music is a great unifier. ASCAP is proud to have stood alongside creators, music publishers, and many more to make this dream a reality."

Paul Williams, ASCAP chairman of the board and president: "A young songwriter once wrote, ‘You give a little love and it all comes back to you; You’re gonna be remembered for the things that you say and do.’ Decades later, this could not be more true. Songwriters across this country now and in the future will remember those who fought so hard for the Music Modernization Act—both in Congress and across the music industry. On behalf of the music community, we are so thankful for the love and will return the favor with music for generations to come."

Mike O'Neill, BMI president and CEO: "This is truly a historic moment for the music industry, especially for the American songwriters and composers at its core, who will see significant and deserved benefit from this legislation. Passage of the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act was a hard-fought process that hinged on tremendous collaboration and unprecedented support among diverse stakeholders who ultimately united to safeguard the future of music. We are gratified by this extraordinary outcome that recognizes the essential contributions of creators and streamlines the use of their music across businesses. While BMI will keep advocating to protect the livelihood of music creators in the digital age, we thank Congress and the President for taking this important step in implementing the most meaningful music licensing reform in decades."

John Josephson, chairman/CEO of SESAC: "Today, President Trump signed the bi-partisan Hatch-Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (The MMA), which will finally bring music copyright laws into the digital age. We applaud everyone's hard work and tireless efforts on this legislation, especially the Senators who worked diligently to get the bill passed then adopted by the House. We're grateful for our committed songwriting and publishing community whose focus and passion have strengthened our industry for generations to come."

Michael Huppe, SoundExchange president and CEO: "With today's signing of the Music Modernization Act, we mark a historic accomplishment. But more importantly, we mark what it means. For creators, it means getting paid more fairly. For those who recorded music before 1972, it means assurance you'll get paid for your work. For songwriters, publishers and producers it means making the digital economy work for you. SoundExchange's 170,000-member community was a driving force in getting the bill from the halls of Congress to the White House. When the music industry speaks with one voice, Congress listens. I urge you to stay active because there is much more work to be done before we can truly say all music creators are treated fairly."

Michelle Lewis and Kay Hanley, Songwriters of North America (SONA) executive directors: "SONA and its membership of working songwriters would like to express heartfelt thanks to Congress and to our fellow music business stakeholders for accomplishing what everyone thought was impossible: Compromise, consensus, and passage of the Orrin G Hatch - Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act.  As President Trump signs our bill into law, today marks another momentous event in the rich history of music and the people who create it."

Dina LaPolt, founder/owner, LaPolt Law: "Music’s unifying power helped opposing communities reach across party lines to pass the Music Modernization Act with unanimous congressional support. The President’s final signature now enshrines the MMA in U.S. law, protecting music creators for generations to come.  I couldn’t be more proud of SONA and all the songwriters who engaged the entire music creator community to help get this over the line!  Now the real work begins!"

Horacio Gutierrez, Spotify general counsel: "One of our core missions at Spotify is to enable a million artists to make a good living from what they love: creating and performing music. The Music Modernization Act is a huge step towards making that a reality, modernizing the outdated licensing system to suit the digital world we live in. The MMA will benefit the music community and create a more transparent and streamlined approach to music licensing and payment for artists."

Keith Kupferschmid, Copyright Alliance CEO: "The Copyright Alliance appreciates the President signing the MMA into law today, and commends and thanks members of Congress, numerous Copyright Alliance members, and friends of the music community for their support of this critical legislation. It's truly remarkable for any cause or bill to bring everyone together in a bipartisan fashion, especially a bill as complex and lengthy as this one. But that's just what happened with the Music Modernization Act. The willingness to compromise, and work with others who may have competing or different interests, in the singular effort to get this important copyright legislation passed was laudable and inspiring."

Michael Eames, Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) president; Alisa Coleman, AIMP New York Executive Director; and John Ozier, AIMP Nashville Executive Director: "Today marks a historic step forward for independent music publishers, songwriters, and the entire music industry, as President Trump has signed the Hatch Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (MMA) into law. This marks the first significant federal legislation since 1998’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to address the needs of rights-holders in today’s online age. We can look forward to a variety of long-overdue reforms that will make it easier to negotiate for and collect fair royalty rates while also establishing once and for all that digital services must pay for the use of pre-1972 recordings. In addition, it ensures independent publishers and songwriters a seat at the table for the new mechanical licensing collective. The AIMP is committed to ensuring that the independent publishing community and songwriters are represented fairly in the implementation and enforcement of the MMA, and we look forward to working with our partners across the music and technology industries as we move ahead in this new era. We offer our sincere gratitude to David Israelite and his team at NMPA, to the NSAI and SONA, to Senator Orrin Hatch and Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Doug Collins, and to all parties from all sides who fought to provide a balanced outcome for all involved."

James Donio, Music Business Association president: "The Music Business Association applauds and congratulates its members and valued partners across the industry on their extraordinary and unprecedented efforts to bring the groundbreaking Music Modernization Act to fruition. What an amazing achievement for creators and their commercial partners to have come together in solidarity, and joined with Congress, to make long overdue copyright reform a reality. This is the start of an exciting new era for the entire business of music. Bravo!"

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JUDICIARY: Copyright Small Claims, Sports Betting & University Fraudulent Research

These are watered down hearings and do not get down to what is actually going on, which is why we have an active Office of the Special Prosecutor, right Bob, or shall I call you by your rightful name, MAXIMUS GOODLATTECUS.

You seem to be short staffed.

See ya soon!

Smooches.

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Happy World Intellectual Property Day & Child Abuse Propaganda Month

In honor of World Intellectual Property Day , World Intellectual Property Director General Francis Gurry has a message for this intellectual property day "Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity".

Very well, now that you have seen this, let us carry one.


The following is an abstract taken for a Wikileaks Podesta email attachment (I forgot to archive the actual source, but is you have an issue with this, the link to the actual report is here.)

Copyright law has a framing problem. The problem is pervasive,
unresolved, and often unnoticed, and it significantly impacts the nature and
scope of copyright protection. Many copyrighted goods can be framed as one
comprehensive whole, an approach we call “zooming out,” or as a
combination of many small works, as approach we call “zooming in”. This
framing choice is apparent across many areas of copyright law. Courts need to
choose whether to zoom in or zoom out on works to determine how much of a
work has been copied, which is relevant for purposes of both fair use analysis
and for applying the substantial similarity tests; to count how many works were
infringed for purposes of determining the multiplier for statutory damages; and
to decide who are the authors of complex works.

 Zooming in, I believe, is going to be applied to an array of intellectual property matters, from copyrights to patents and trademarks. so, allow me to explain why.

See, it goes like this:

Once upon a time George H.W. Bush, came up with this brilliant idea to privatize everything in government through a special procurement doctrine of chattels.

In short, the government owns everything, as commerce, because vital statistics, the Census, is considered, through privatization, human capital.

All that rich, raw data could never possibly be reposited directly into the cabinet agency databases without a little help, so, the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) came up with this great idea of Public Private Partnerships, where no one could ever be caught stealin' because severed the "contractual arm" concept and replaced it some psuedo-AI crap of what they call "authorities" to operate as the almighty gatekeeper of what is now the private domain.

When these corporations contract with the federal government to administer and "maximize revenues" for the Social Impact Bond investors, they typically sell, or lease, software platforms that run these data.

Those "other" software platforms, which are intellectual property in the forms of patents and trademarks, come up with a highly sophisticated legal argument that will take any run of the mill case of fraud and wiggle a way out of liability.

Serco has the contract for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office administration.

Serco has subsidiaries which own lots of these software platforms used by privately contracted third party federal administrators, which means any data input into their systems, or in the case of the DNC lawsuit, data extraction, would have to walk through walls of fire to figure out who and what to subpoena.

The concept of using intellectual property as a financial instrument is more than that, it is a way to shield these NGOs engaging in the trafficking of tiny humans and generating child abuse propaganda, to make more money so they can keep doing what they are doing, stealin' , oh, and using tiny humans as lab rats in biomedical research that they bill to Medicaid.

Using Ideas Strategically: The Contest Between Business and NGO Networks in Intellectual Property Rights

Whose ideas matter? And how do actors make them matter? Focusing on the strategic deployment of competing normative frameworks, that is, framing issues and grafting private agendas on policy debates, we examine the contentious politics of the contemporary international intellectual property rights regime. We compare the business victory in the establishment of the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) in the World Trade Organization with the subsequent NGO campaign against enforcing TRIPS to ensure access to essential HIV/AIDS medicines. Our analysis challenges constructivist scholarship that emphasizes the distinction between various types of transnational networks based on instrumental versus normative orientations. We question the portrayal of business firms as strictly instrumental actors preoccupied with material concerns, and NGOs as motivated solely by principled, or non-material beliefs. Yet we also offer a friendly amendment to constructivism by demonstrating its applicability to the analysis of business. Treating the business and NGO networks as competing interest groups driven by their normative ideals and material concerns, we demonstrate that these networks' strategies and activities are remarkably similar.

This is what that Clinton, et al cabal is attempting to cover up by reanimating the law of chattels to justify what they are doing. 

They are going to claim parental rights to all data used against them through the gift of the grant of guardianship and custodianship of data through a public private partnership accredited through a fake authority.

To every cow hath calf, so book have copy.

On a mission...

Wikileaks Podest Email Attachment on Framing Copyrighted Works 021216 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

DNC et al v. Russia, Donald Trump et al lawsuit, April 20, 2018 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Intelligence Raid Of The Global Privateers & Profiteers

The Intelligence Community taking down the Privateers.

The following Twitter thread contains articles listing CEOs who have stepped down since the Assets Seizure Executive Order.

The reason this is of such significance is because these corporations lobby, and financially contribute to political campaigns, and launder money through child welfare nonprofit organizations that traffic tiny humans, as they invest in social impact bonds.

How each CEO is connected in this model, only time will tell.

The battlefield of global intelligence is the war now preserved in the databases of history for all to participate, in real time.

All hail the whistleblowers.

https://t.co/ItAYp3hXV4
PAPA JOHN🍕STEPS DOWN......

— ANTI SCHOOL +++ (@antischool_ftw) December 24, 2017.

BUILDDIRECT CEO RESIGNS...https://t.co/hBg20pxswO

— ANTI SCHOOL +++ (@antischool_ftw) December 24, 2017

FBI LAWYER BAKER STEPS DOWN...https://t.co/x8XBZXer5A

— ANTI SCHOOL +++ (@antischool_ftw) December 25, 2017

Just another reason why I just adore transposable models, you can move them to any venue in a town near you.

I cannot verify but I believe the next wave of assets seizures by the DOJ is going to be intellectual property, Copyrights, Patents & Trademarks.

This is an intelligence raid of the global privateers & profiteers.

FBI Whistleblower Protection Act 2016 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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