CEA, Consumer Advocacy Groups to Launch "Digital Freedom Campaign"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 19, 2006 - 3:22pm.

Washington - The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), a trade group of consumer electronics makers and other technology firms, along with consumer advocacy groups Public Knowledge and the Media Access Project, have announced plans to launch a campaign that aims to unite innovators, artists and consumers to "reassert technology rights."

The Digital Freedom Campaign will "empower innovators, students, artists and consumers to create and make lawful use of new technologies free of unreasonable government restrictions and without fear of costly and abusive lawsuits." The group added that "basic freedoms are under attack by the big record labels and movie studios whose aging monopolies are threatened by innovation."

CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro, Public Knowledge president Gigi Sohn and Media Access Project senior vice president Harold Feld are slated to be on hand at a press conference in Washington next Wednesday to announce further details about the Digital Freedom Campaign.

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