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The First Amendment, Antitrust law and Copyright law are intended for the people - and the better corporations realize that "we the people" are owners and customers.

  • Freedom of speech and expression
    • Helping you oppose censorship legislation in state legislatures and Congress
    • Civil rights litigation against censorship
    • Advocacy on Federal Trade Commission investigations of trade practices based on content of speech
  • Freedom of competition
    • Trade association antitrust counseling
    • General antitrust counseling
    • DMCA (misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to restrain trade) 
    • Advocacy against the leveraging of major copyright holdings into restraints upon trade
    • Advice to retailers wishing to compete in the sale, rental or licensed reproduction of copyrighted works
    • Copyright misuse
  • Freedom of identity and privacy
    • Copyright misuse
    • Counseling and litigation concerning the Video Privacy Protection Act
    • Legislative advocacy on privacy protection (particularly for retailers who wish to protect their customers' privacy from their supplier/competitors)
    • Freedom of anonymous speech
  • Freedom of thought, opinion and religion
    • Separation of church and state 
  • Freedom of inquiry, learning, experimentation and creativity
    • Copyright misuse through "licensing" restrictions
    • UCITA (opposing efforts to restrain freedom through the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) 
  • Preservation and enrichment of the Information Commons
    • Advocate for greater access to communications avenues
    • Advocate for greater access to creative works
    • Protect against fencing off of the information commons
      • Oppose misuse of copyrights
      • Oppose "licensing" of rights not owned
      • Oppose enactment of UCITA
      • Correct flaws in the DMCA that allow copyright holders to take rights away from the public 
    • Entitlement to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
      • Oppose capital punishment
      • Advocacy of income parity
      • Elimination of poverty
      • Encourage legal recognition of humans as superior to corporations

Do not hesitate to contact me if you believe I may be of assistance in helping you pursue laudable objectives relating to these issues.

Legal services from John T. Mitchell (practicing law in Washington, DC, U.S.A.)
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