NCUC letter for SOPA/PIPA

[Alex Gakuru]

Anybody with more details on this? Thanks
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"The House just acknowledged “legitimate concerns” about SOPA — its
version of the PROTECT IP Act (pdf link) — and backed away from a vote
that looked certain to occur. The Senate needs to do the same: PROTECT
IP will kill jobs and innovation, undermine cyber security, censor the
Internet, and provide ready justification to foreign regimes that want
to crack down on dissent and political reform.

http://absolutewrite.com/2011/12/16/sopa-on-hold-protect-ip-still-pending-an-open-letter/

On 12/16/11, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 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."
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/sopa-protect-ip_n_1140180.html?view=print&comm_ref=false
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
>
>> Is thefe a record on the House website of the submission?
>>
>> Just so there is a url to refer in the meantime to I have uploaded the
>> letter to http://isoc-ny.org/ncuc/NCUC_Letter_on_SOPA+PIPA.pdf
>>
>> j
>>
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>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis
>> <k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> KK
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
>> Senior Lecturer in Law,
>> Director of LLM in Information Technology and Telems. Law,
>> Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses,
>> ICANN NCUC Chair
>> University of Strathclyde,
>> Graham Hills Bld.
>> 50 George Street,
>> Glasgow, G1 1BA,
>> UK
>> tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306
>> email: k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk
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>>
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