Pronetos

The Read Write Web has a post today indicating that President Obama’s Justice Department picks tend to be old school Copyright Lawyers. From the post:

Today, Donald B. Verrilli was appointed to the position of associate deputy attorney general by President Obama. While he is definitely not a household name, Verrilli was the lawyer who represented the music industry in the Grokster case in the U.S. Supreme Court. This appointment by itself wouldn’t necessarily stand out, but the Obama administration has now appointed a handful of pro-copyright industry insiders to prominent positions in the Department of Justice, including Tom Perrelli, who was one of the RIAA’s top lawyers.

As CNet reports, Verrilli, while working as a senior litigator for the Washington law firm Jenner & Block, also represented the entertainment industry in Viacom’s case against Google’s YouTube, and he represented the RIAA in its infamous case against Jammie Thomas.

We’ll be keeping an eye on the goings-on at the Justice Department as the administration’s agenda matures.