Hello,<br><br>New 'Firewall' song protests SOPA copyright bill (Q&A) <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57345870-281/new-firewall-song-protests-sopa-copyright-bill-q-a/">http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57345870-281/new-firewall-song-protests-sopa-copyright-bill-q-a/</a><br>
<br>regards,<br><br>Alex<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Alex Gakuru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gakuru@gmail.com">gakuru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Thanks!<br>
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On 12/17/11, Gmail <<a href="mailto:clarinettet@gmail.com">clarinettet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> A victory against SOPA and the congress :<br>
> <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sopa_win/?source=fb" target="_blank">http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sopa_win/?source=fb</a><br>
><br>
> I have curated various readings and positions on SOPA on my Pearltrees under<br>
> clarinette02 if anyone is interested.<br>
><br>
> Tara<br>
><br>
> IT/IP Lawyer<br>
> FlyAKite.org<br>
> Sent from my iPad<br>
><br>
> On 17 Dec 2011, at 19:03, Alex Gakuru <<a href="mailto:gakuru@GMAIL.COM">gakuru@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Anybody with more details on this? Thanks<br>
>> --<br>
>> "The House just acknowledged “legitimate concerns” about SOPA — its<br>
>> version of the PROTECT IP Act (pdf link) — and backed away from a vote<br>
>> that looked certain to occur. The Senate needs to do the same: PROTECT<br>
>> IP will kill jobs and innovation, undermine cyber security, censor the<br>
>> Internet, and provide ready justification to foreign regimes that want<br>
>> to crack down on dissent and political reform.<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://absolutewrite.com/2011/12/16/sopa-on-hold-protect-ip-still-pending-an-open-letter/" target="_blank">http://absolutewrite.com/2011/12/16/sopa-on-hold-protect-ip-still-pending-an-open-letter/</a><br>
>><br>
>> On 12/16/11, William Drake <<a href="mailto:william.drake@uzh.ch">william.drake@uzh.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> Hi<br>
>>><br>
>>> Just stumbled across this very good and detailed dissection of the<br>
>>> lobbying<br>
>>> and politics around SOPA, might be of interest. One of the more<br>
>>> depressing<br>
>>> observations: "The result was a perfect agglomeration of traditional<br>
>>> Democratic Party constituencies, enabling Leahy to quickly round up 21<br>
>>> Democrats as co-sponsors -- including some of the most progressive and<br>
>>> Internet-friendly members of either chamber. Top members of the<br>
>>> Democratic<br>
>>> leadership, including Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dick Durbin<br>
>>> (D-Ill.),<br>
>>> signed on alongside progressive stalwarts, like Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)<br>
>>> and<br>
>>> Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), to the chagrin of Internet freedom groups who<br>
>>> had<br>
>>> once counted all of them as allies. All 22 Democratic co-sponsors of<br>
>>> Protect IP previously voted to protect net neutrality."<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/sopa-protect-ip_n_1140180.html?view=print&comm_ref=false" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/sopa-protect-ip_n_1140180.html?view=print&comm_ref=false</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Bill<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Is thefe a record on the House website of the submission?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Just so there is a url to refer in the meantime to I have uploaded the<br>
>>>> letter to <a href="http://isoc-ny.org/ncuc/NCUC_Letter_on_SOPA+PIPA.pdf" target="_blank">http://isoc-ny.org/ncuc/NCUC_Letter_on_SOPA+PIPA.pdf</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> j<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis<br>
>>>> <<a href="mailto:k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk">k.komaitis@strath.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Dear all,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> As you all know by now there is a great discussion taking place<br>
>>>> regarding<br>
>>>> the recent US legislative approaches regarding PIPA/SOPA. At yesterday's<br>
>>>> policy call, some members of NCUC suggested it would be great if NCUC<br>
>>>> were<br>
>>>> to join all the bodies - international organizations and institutions,<br>
>>>> individuals, civil society and academics – against these horrible<br>
>>>> copyright protection.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Both Bills are meant to go for mark-up tomorrow, so there was no time<br>
>>>> for<br>
>>>> the letter to be put before the whole list. The letter – attached - has<br>
>>>> been drafted and ratified by both the NCUC EC and PC and was just sent;<br>
>>>> it<br>
>>>> reiterates the arguments already submitted and presented.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thanks<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> KK<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> 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>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
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>>><br>
>>><br>
>><br>
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