“FEC Ruling Allows Foreign Volunteers To Provide PAC With Intellectual Property”

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Bloomberg BNA:

The Federal Election Commission voted 4-2 to approve a controversial, long-pending advisory opinion allowing a political action committee to receive intellectual property produced by foreign volunteers.
The vote at an FEC open meeting March 19 fell mainly along party lines, with one Democratic commissioner, FEC Chairwoman Ann Ravel, joining the three FEC Republicans to approve the ruling. Two commissioners holding Democratic seats, Steven Walther and Ellen Weintraub, dissented.
Approved was an advisory opinion (AO 2014-20) allowing a political action committee called Make Your Laws, or MYL PAC, to receive computer services from foreigners using open-source code, which could then become the intellectual property of the PAC.
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