Two articles in CNN Money take an interesting look at the recent legislative successes and failures to extend intellectual property laws. One article, Millions in SOPA Lobbying Bucks Gone to Waste details the intersection between corporate lobbying and the populist…
Archive for the ‘Legislation in the News’ Category
Megaupload Shut Down By DOJ For Piracy
20
Jan
Megalupload, send me a file, as the song goes. Well, no more as the United States Justice Department shut the site down and arrested several executives on various charges of criminal copyright infringement. The indictment, as reported, claims the company…
ALA’s Quick Reference Guide to PIPA, SOPA and the OPEN Act
17
Jan
“Three copyright-related bills are currently in play at the start of 2012 – all of which take aim at any website beyond U.S. borders that distribute counterfeit or copyright infringing products. All three bills operate under the assumption that there…
JSTOR Opens Up A Little On Public Research And Congress Wants To Close It Down A Lot
16
Jan
Several stories are popping up on JSTOR’s Register and Read program which will allow non-affiliates to have limited free access to some of the content in JSTOR, with emphasis on the word “limited.” Signing up gives one access to a…
Browsing On A Sunday: SOPA, E-book Loaning, and the Billable Hour
15
Jan
The White House released a statement yesterday in opposition to filtering the Domain Name System as a response to Internet piracy. Three of the administration’s top technology and IP officers issues a lengthy statement on the White House web server…
Browsing On A Sunday: SOPA, E-book Loaning, and the Billable Hour
15
Jan
The White House released a statement yesterday in opposition to filtering the Domain Name System as a response to Internet piracy. Three of the administration’s top technology and IP officers issues a lengthy statement on the White House web server…
Become a Certified Patriot by Donating Cash to Draw Down the National Debt
17
Dec
That’s the idea behind Representative Don Young (Alaska) DebtPatriots.Gov Act of 2011. Introduced last month, H.R. 3504 calls for the creation of federal government website dedicated to collecting donations to reduce the country’s public debt. Quoting from the bill, here…
SOPA Mark-Up: Manager’s Substitute and Links to Webcasts of Committee Hearings
16
Dec
Text of the Manager’s Subsitute for H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, referred to in yesterday’s LLB post. Links to “official” yesterday’s and today’s webcasts (well, sort of) and more here. [JH]
SOPA Goes to Mark-Up Today in the House Judiciary Committee
15
Dec
On OpenCongress Blog, Donny Shaw reports ahead of [today’s scheduled] meeting the [House Judiciary Committee] chairman, Rep. Lamar Smith [R, TX], has pulled a neat little trick. Smith has come out with a manager’s amendment that eliminates the most insanely…
