Victoria Espinel, the Obama administration’s intellectual property enforcement coordinator (”IP Czar”) is undertaking a serious review of American intellectual property enforcement policy. To her credit, she is asking for public input on how they should approach their task, though much of the document makes erroneous assumptions about the need for “enhanced enforcement” and the unmitigated “harms to the American economy” from intellectual property infringement. The economic reality that too much intellectual property actually harms the American economy is not present in the request for public information, making our job and input even more important.

The input should take two parts:

In the first, the IPEC seeks written submissions from the public regarding the costs to the U.S. economy resulting from intellectual property violations, and the threats to public health and safety created by infringement. In the second part, the IPEC requests detailed recommendations from the public regarding the objectives and content of the Joint Strategic Plan and other specific recommendations for improving the Government’s intellectual property enforcement efforts. Responses to this request for comments may be directed to either of these two parts, or both, and may include a response to one or more requests for information found in either part.

Submissions are due on or before Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 5 p.m. and should be directed to intellectualproperty@omb.eop.gov.

In the meantime, what topics and approaches should we, as a community, cover?

[Via BoingBoing]

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