Key Music Industry Lawyer Named EU Copyright Chief 74
halfEvilTech writes "The European Union's new point person on copyright policy won't take up her post until mid-April, but she's already stirring up controversy. That's because Maria Martin-Prat spent years directing 'global legal policy' for IFPI, the global recording industry's London-based trade group, before moving back into government. The appointment raises new questions about the past private-sector work of government officials, especially those crafting policy or issuing legal judgments on the same issues they once lobbied for."
On the plus side at least Gaddafi will have a job (Score:3, Funny)
....when they start appointing new judges to the European Court of Human Rights.
He's a 'former civil servant.....put in charge of dossiers' directly related to his former employer/dictatorship....