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Today Rep. Lamar Smith Announced he will remove the DNS blocking provisions in the Stop Online Piracy Act. His statement: “After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision. […]
On December 30, Spain’s new Popular Party government announced the implementation of the “Sinde Law,” which allows a government agency to order the takedown of websites based on allegations of intellectual property infringement by rightholders. The government will also be able to take action against service providers doing business with the sites. The former government […]
On December 19, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee voted to make the EU Legal Service Opinion on ACTA publicly available. [Click here for the full Opinion]. At the subsequent hearing on ACTA, Swedish Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström argued that “this Legal Opinion confirms the fact that ACTA is at best a borderline case. […]
Rep. Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has announced a January 18 hearing to “examine the potential impact of Domain Name Service (DNS) and search engine blocking on American cyber-security, jobs and the Internet community. In light of policy proposals affecting the way taxpayers access the Internet, the hearing […]
The conflict between Senator Wyden and the administration over the constitutionality of ACTA continued anew last week. As previously reported, Senator Wyden wrote a letter to President Obama in October, 2011, challenging USTR’s claimed authority to bind the United States to ACTA without Congressional consent. The complaint, echoing several academic commentators (Flynn, Lessig & Goldsmith, […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Reps. Issa and Maloney Introduce Bill Threatening Open Access Research The Research Works Act (H.R.3699) introduced by Reps. Issa and Maloney would prohibit grantwriting federal agencies from requiring that research resulting from their grants be made freely available online. Section 2 of the bill reads: “No Federal […]
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