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President Obama August 1, 2009	President Obama: Innovation key to improving the economy The “spirit of innovation” is essential to America’s future prosperity From the President’s Saturday August 1, 2009 radio address “Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past, and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future,” Obama emphasized in his August 1, 2009, radio and Internet address to the nation. “Even as we rescue this economy,” the President noted, “we must work to rebuild it stronger than before. We've got to build a new foundation strong enough to withstand future economic storms and support lasting prosperity.” “It is only by building a new foundation that we will once again harness that incredible generative capacity of the American people,” the President said. “All it takes are the policies to tap that potential — to ignite that spark of creativity and ingenuity — which has always been at the heart of who we are and how we succeed.”
Secretary Locke July 20th, 2009	Secretary Locke Recognizes the Contributions of America’s Copyright Community As Crucial to Economic Growth, Jobs, and Trade Monday, July 20th, 2009 — Secretary’s DOC Press Conference U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke cited copyright industries as the “critical drivers” of economic growth, jobs and trade. Secretary Locke highlighted the positive impact copyright industries have on economic growth and employment, and alerted his audience to the fact that “copyright industries are plagued by widespread counterfeiting… of both physical and online products.” “President Obama fully supports robust, progressive trade agreements,” Locke said, agreements that provide “strong protection for intellectual property.” He said the Obama Administration was fully committed to enforcement of creators’ rights. Secretary Locke noted that the United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization has found that copyright and intellectual property rights not only bring economic growth, they also are significant contributors to society and culture.

President Obama

August 1, 2009

President Obama: Innovation key to improving the economy

The “spirit of innovation” is essential to America’s future prosperity

From the President’s Saturday August 1, 2009 radio address

“Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past, and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future,” Obama emphasized in his August 1, 2009, radio and Internet address to the nation.

“Even as we rescue this economy,” the President noted, “we must work to rebuild it stronger than before. We've got to build a new foundation strong enough to withstand future economic storms and support lasting prosperity.”

“It is only by building a new foundation that we will once again harness that incredible generative capacity of the American people,” the President said. “All it takes are the policies to tap that potential — to ignite that spark of creativity and ingenuity — which has always been at the heart of who we are and how we succeed.”

Secretary Locke

July 20th, 2009

Secretary Locke Recognizes the Contributions of America’s Copyright Community As Crucial to Economic Growth, Jobs, and Trade

Monday, July 20th, 2009 — Secretary’s DOC Press Conference

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke cited copyright industries as the “critical drivers” of economic growth, jobs and trade.

Secretary Locke highlighted the positive impact copyright industries have on economic growth and employment, and alerted his audience to the fact that “copyright industries are plagued by widespread counterfeiting… of both physical and online products.”

“President Obama fully supports robust, progressive trade agreements,” Locke said, agreements that provide “strong protection for intellectual property.” He said the Obama Administration was fully committed to enforcement of creators’ rights. Secretary Locke noted that the United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization has found that copyright and intellectual property rights not only bring economic growth, they also are significant contributors to society and culture.

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