Obama Appoints Former RIAA Lawyer to Associate Attorney General
TechDirt, January 6, 2009
By Kevin Donovan
President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a former RIAA lawyer as Associate Attorney General. Tom Perrilli has represented the recording industry in "cutting-edge intellectual property, technology and anti-piracy litigation" and "represented the recording industry in a host of cases arising under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
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