is running an excellent interview with Sarah Deutsch, general counsel at Verizon, by Declan McCullagh. At the end of the article, she says, “It’s been an interesting time to be on the same side as groups like Public Knowledge and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We find ourselves with shared interests in making sure that fair use is preserved, that users’ expectation in new digital services are fulfilled, and that copyright is ultimately a law that involves balancing the interests of many parties. We have a 300-pound gorilla on one side of the scale. Many of us are joining together on the other, to reach that necessary balance. ”

that public meetings and workshops have the potential to give consumers a voice and provide balance to the whole discourse (any whole discourse, but in this case, specifically the one surrounding copyright in a networked world), you have to read this story from Grant Gross at The Register: Fair Use advocates silenced by Big Brother. The whole thing is ridiculous.