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…
Posts Tagged ‘SOPA’
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…
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…
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…
SOPA/PIPA vs a Crowdsourced Alternative, the OPEN Act
12
Dec
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) recently released a public draft of the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act as a bi-partisan alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the…
In re SOPA: Library Copyright Alliance v. Register of Copyrights
23
Nov
I would like to be very clear at the outset. It is my view that if Congress does not continue to provide serious responses to online piracy, the U.S. copyright system will ultimately fail. The premise of copyright law is…
SOPA Goes To A (Carefully Managed) Hearing
16
Nov
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is headed to a hearing today before the full House Judiciary Committee. Well, we’ll call it a hearing because there is at least one party testifying that opposes the bill, and that is Katherine…
