ACTA / SOPA / PIPA / COICA
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ACTA ignites concerns about threat to Internet freedom – USATODAY.com
BERLIN – Braving subzero temperatures, hundreds of thousands of Europeans across the continent took to the streets Saturday, protesting an international trade agreement many say will overrule democratic institutions, jeopardize civil liberties and stifle technological innovation. Contributing: Beata Biel in Poland, Blaz Zgaga in Slovenia, Olga Dragileva in Latvia, Pavel Sibyla in Slovakia, Ruby Russell in Berlin, Vlad Odobescu in Bucharest, Donata Motuzaite in Lithuania and Petra Hajdu in Hungary.A New Question of Internet Freedom - NYTimes.com
In the U.S. protests , Web sites including Wikipedia went dark Jan. 18, and more than seven million people signed Google’s online petition opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. Ultimately, even the bills’ sponsors in the U.S. Congress backed down under the onslaught of public criticism.
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White House IP Czar Releases the 2011 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement
American University Intellectual Property Brief » The Next SOPA/PIPA Battle: A Response to Five Arguments for Copyright Access and Internet Freedom
*Author’s Note: The following presents context and discussion in response to a Washington Post blog discussing copyright access and Internet freedom, and specifically to five proposals authored by freedom advocates for consideration in the next copyright infringement debate. If you are one of the many people who sent an email, made a phone call, posted on facebook, or otherwise acted in the fight over SOPA and PIPA, your call to action may come again in the not so distant future. Yes, SOPA and PIPA in their original forms are “dead,” but the push to address copyright infringement is paramount for the movie, music, computer software, and other industries.By Olivia Azevedo What an impressive start of the year for democracy. Seriously.
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA ; Censorship OR Protection; What's Your Side?
Sopa / pipa - Page 2 - Dynamic Drive Forums
Well even though SOPA and PIPA are "on hold" for the time being, our freedom of speech is now threatened by another law - ACTA.
The European Commission describes ACTA as a "major initiative" designed to fight piracy and the counterfeiting of goods at the international level. It says the agreement would not censor or shut down websites and, unlike the SOPA bill recently put on hold in the U.S.
Poles protest bill on intellectual property rights - CNN
ACTA
How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the U.S. Economy?
(Photo: Srikrishna K) Supporters of stronger intellectual property enforcement — such as those behind the proposed new Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills in Congress — argue that online piracy is a huge problem, one which costs the U.S. economy between $200 and $250 billion per year, and is responsible for the loss of 750,000 American jobs.
U.S. GAO - Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods
In October 2008, Congress passed the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (PRO-IP Act), to improve the effectiveness of U.S. government efforts to protect intellectual property (IP) rights such as copyrights, patents, and trademarks.The Institute for Policy Innovation has released a study on the costs of movie piracy.
Texas-Size Sophistry
You could call Internet users “citizen lobbyists.”
SOPA & citizenship in a digital age | NetFamilyNews.org
The January 24th Senate vote is our best chance to stop SOPA.
These 61 Senators are refusing to meet with their constituents before the critical Jan 24 vote on PIPA/SOPA. Oh Reddit, can you call them? : politics
SOPA Sponsor Lamar Smith’s Campaign Website Violated Copyright Laws
Oh well this is certainly ripe: Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith, the Hollywood-campaign-donation-loving sponsor of the decrepit Stop Online Piracy Act, apparently improperly used a copyright-protected photo on his recent campaign’s web page, according to Vice .SOPA