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Advocates for intellectual property reform are sounding skittish about the emerging upper echelon of Barack Obama’s Justice Department, which is shaping up as a who’s-who of star litigators for the music, movie, and software industries. The most recent addition to a long roster, prospective Associate Deputy Attorney General Donald Verrilli, is a veteran of several of the highest-profile IP cases seen in recent years, on the side of stronger and more aggressive copyright protection in each case..

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