<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi<div><br></div><div>Just stumbled across this very good and detailed dissection of the lobbying and politics around SOPA, might be of interest. One of the more depressing observations: "The result was a perfect agglomeration of traditional Democratic Party constituencies, enabling Leahy to quickly round up 21 Democrats as co-sponsors -- including some of the most progressive and Internet-friendly members of either chamber. Top members of the Democratic leadership, including Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), signed on alongside progressive stalwarts, like Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), to the chagrin of Internet freedom groups who had once counted all of them as allies. All 22 Democratic co-sponsors of Protect IP previously voted to protect net neutrality."</div><div><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/sopa-protect-ip_n_1140180.html?view=print&comm_ref=false">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/sopa-protect-ip_n_1140180.html?view=print&comm_ref=false</a></span></div></span></div></span></div>
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<div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Is thefe a record on the House website of the submission?</div><div><br></div>Just so there is a url to refer in the meantime to I have uploaded the letter to <a href="http://isoc-ny.org/ncuc/NCUC_Letter_on_SOPA+PIPA.pdf">http://isoc-ny.org/ncuc/NCUC_Letter_on_SOPA+PIPA.pdf</a><br>
<br>j<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk">k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear all,<br>
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As you all know by now there is a great discussion taking place regarding the recent US legislative approaches regarding PIPA/SOPA. At yesterday's policy call, some members of NCUC suggested it would be great if NCUC were to join all the bodies - international organizations and institutions, individuals, civil society and academics – against these horrible copyright protection.<br>
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Both Bills are meant to go for mark-up tomorrow, so there was no time for the letter to be put before the whole list. The letter – attached - has been drafted and ratified by both the NCUC EC and PC and was just sent; it reiterates the arguments already submitted and presented.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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KK<br>
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Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,<br>
Senior Lecturer in Law,<br>
Director of LLM in Information Technology and Telems. Law,<br>
Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses,<br>
ICANN NCUC Chair<br>
University of Strathclyde,<br>
Graham Hills Bld.<br>
50 George Street,<br>
Glasgow, G1 1BA,<br>
UK<br>
tel: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29141%20548%204306" value="+441415484306">+44 (0)141 548 4306</a><br>
email: <a href="mailto:k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk">k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk</a><br>
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