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Infamous villain: Mitch Glazier

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(Doesn't he look just like Jim Carrey in "Liar, Liar"?)

This is a 'web dossier' on the sleazebag lawyer who-- supposedly singlehandedly, though he denies this-- sold all recording artists down the river in November 1999 by sneaking a 'correction' into a congressional bill while working for the House of Representatives, and then fled to a $500k/year job with the RIAA, who alone stood to profit by this crime.

Glazier pleads innocence: Feb2000 WashPost

1966: born Mitchell Glazier (mother Janice)

c1987: BS in Social Policy (cum laude) Northwestern U

Doctor of Jurisprudence, Vanderbilt U

1991: admitted to bar

member of the Illinois bar, Wash DC bar, bars of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit

law clerk to the Honorable Wayne R. Andersen, Judge, US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

practiced law at Chicago law firm Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg (commercial litigator wrt intellectual property, antitrust, professional malpractice, and product liability)

Chief Counsel to the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives (Subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina)

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committee counsel at impeachment hearings

1998: quoted in Feb 9 article about satellite/cable law [etext] article

1998: March: similar funny-business wrt HR 2589 (copyright extension), blame shared by Coble? [detailed anti- rant]

1998: April: Wired covers HR2281, WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act [article]

1998: Jun: quoted in article about WIPO bill [passim]

1998: Info antipiracy act [700k etext] 900k more

1998: Jun? Steve Albini denounces record industry, echoing C Love in 2000 [etext]

1998: Sept: long overview of HR354 by MG [etext]

1998: Oct: S505 passed, Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (signed 27 Oct) [debate]

1998: Oct: thanked for work on HR2281, Digital Millennium Copyright Act [speeches] Hatch IBM

1999: Apr: WIPO bill [article]

1999: May: revisions to HR354, Collections of Information Antipiracy Act [letter to MG] ditto more

1999: Jun: 3rd try for HR354 [overview]

1999: Sept: WIPO workshop [list of names]

MG inserts three sentences into 1999 appropriations bill changing copyright law to read that sound recordings can be considered works for hire, supposedly without the knowledge of either the chairman and ranking minority member of the Subcommittee, 'in the dead of night'...

1999: 29 Nov: Clinton signs HR3194 [legal analysis]

"In the final weeks before Congress adjourned, this legislation was undergoing some fine tuning. An amendment to the Copyright Act's definition of a "work for hire" was unexpectedly introduced into the version of the bill contained in the conference report on H.R. 1554 and was retained in H.R. 3194, the final version of the legislation.

Under Section 101(1) of the Copyright Act, a work for hire is a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; under Section 101(2), it is a work specially ordered or commissioned in writing as a work for hire, for use as one of several listed categories of work.

Section 1011(d) of H.R. 3194, part of the "Technical Amendments" section, adds "sound recordings" to the nine categories of works listed as eligible for Section 101(2) work-for-hire treatment. Thus, sound recordings join the categories of contributions to a collective work, parts of a motion picture or audiovisual work, translations, supplementary works, compilations, instructional texts, tests, answer material for tests, and atlases."

1999: 30 Nov? Clinton signs cybersquatting bill? [MG involved] [full text]

2000: Jan: Dave Marsh attacks RIAA in Rock and Rap Confidential [March followup] mirror

11 Feb: RIAA hires MG [cite] (PR-link has expired) [MG blames Coble] telling quote

RIAA's Cary Sherman: "Wouldn't you expect that we would try to hire the guy who has done more copyright legislation in this town than anyone else in the last five years?"

15 Feb: LiveDaily.com posts MG defense (expired) [passim] [article]

21 Feb: MG moves to RIAA [cite]

2000: Apr: MG speaks at IP conference [list of speakers]

2000: Apr: RIAA press release defends work-for-hire [detailed analysis/attack]

2000: May: article about Sheryl Crow's testimony before Congress, with MG defending his actions [article] Barry Bergman [article] [legal]

2000: Jun: Coble statement [PR]

2000: Jun: Salon posts Courtney Love's 16 May denunciation (cf Albini, Jun1998) 'unedited'? mirror ditto ditto ditto

2000: Aug: compromise claimed by RIAA [PR, evil Javascript, may expire]

19 Sept: House passes work-for-hire correction [info]

Hilary Rosen, CEO of RIAA, claims "We said from the beginning we did not intend to change the law and have worked diligently to assure that the issue of work for hire is resolved without prejudice to anyone's position." [PR] (evil Javascript, expires in 30 days?)

12 Oct: Senate passes correction [article]

Legal analysis of work-for-hire

Coble: ABC profile, voting record, campaign donors

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