NCUC letter for SOPA/PIPA

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Dear all, 

A victory against SOPA and the congress :
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/sopa_win/?source=fb

I have curated various readings and positions on SOPA on my Pearltrees under clarinette02 if anyone is interested.

Tara

IT/IP Lawyer
FlyAKite.org
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On 17 Dec 2011, at 19:03, Alex Gakuru <gakuru at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Anybody with more details on this? Thanks
> --
> "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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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