[Ec-ncuc] [Pc-ncuc] Letter on SOPA.docx

Wed Dec 14 19:06:38 CET 2011

As soon as I can fire up my wayback machine and go the 90s and get a fax
machine...

Seriously, I'm on a train, don't have access to one right now.  Robin?

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis <
k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks guys - can someone please put the final touches and fax it to the
> number provided by Robin? As soon as it is done we'll post it to the list.
>
> Thank you all
>
> KK
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 14 Dec 2011, at 17:49, "Robin Gross" <robin at ipjustice.org<mailto:
> robin at ipjustice.org>> wrote:
>
> I just phoned the committee about how to get it in their hands.  They said
> they don't accept anything via email (nice, huh?), only fax or snail mail.
>
> So let's fax the letter to the committee.  This is the fax number they
> gave me 202-225-7680
>
> Terrific work on the letter, KK!
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Brenden Kuerbis wrote:
>
> It is the House Judiciary Committee which is marking up the SOPA bill this
> Thursday:
>
> http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/calendar.html
>
> As for names, titles of who it needs to go to:
>
> The Honorable Lamar Smith
> Chairman
> Committee on the Judiciary
> 2138 Rayburn House Office Building
> Washington, DC 20515
>
> The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
> Ranking Member
> Committee on the Judiciary
> 2138 Rayburn House Office Building
> Washington, DC 20515
>
> Re: H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act
>
> Dear Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Conyers,
>
>
> You may need to call their offices to get email addresses.
>
> (see e.g.,
> http://newamerica.net/publications/resources/2011/Public_Interest_Letter_Opposing_HR_3261foranother similar letter which includes some NCUC members)
>
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Brenden Kuerbis
> Internet Governance Project
> http://internetgovernance.org<http://internetgovernance.org/>
>
>
> 2011/12/14 Konstantinos Komaitis <k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk<mailto:
> k.komaitis at strath.ac.uk>>
> Thanks Bill ? the members of the committee are there but there are no
> contact details and I don?t have the bandwidth to go through them all to
> find their addresses. There are too many ? does anyone have the address of
> someone we can send this letter to?
>
> Thanks
>
> KK
>
> PS: perhaps someone in the US can send this letter due to time differences?
>
> Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
>
> Senior Lecturer,
> Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses
> Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law
> University of Strathclyde,
> The Law School,
> Graham Hills building,
> 50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA
> UK
> tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306<tel:%2B44%20%280%29141%20548%204306>
>
> http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765
> Selected publications:
> http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038
> Website: www.komaitis.org<http://www.komaitis.org/>
>
> From: William Drake [mailto:william.drake at uzh.ch<mailto:
> william.drake at uzh.ch>]
> Sent: ???????, 14 ?????????? 2011 5:10 ??
> To: Konstantinos Komaitis
> Cc: pc-ncuc at ipjustice.org<mailto:pc-ncuc at ipjustice.org>
> Subject: Re: [Pc-ncuc] Letter on SOPA.docx
> Importance: High
>
> Nice. I'm really slammed now and can't play with wording, but you might
> consider breaking up the one para sentence at the top, adding mention of
> undermining international support for the US-favored governance model, and
> noting the letters of opposition from EU etc.  Or not.
>
> I'd send it to the committee members.  I gave the house comm URL in the
> skype yesterday, Senate comm will have a page too.
>
> On Dec 14, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Konstantinos Komaitis wrote:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> As discussed in yesterday?s policy call, here is a draft of the letter
> NCUC will send in relation to SOPA and PIPA and I would like to thank
> Brenden for getting a first crack at this. I am not sure who it should be
> addressed to and I don?t have the email or any contact as such. Can someone
> in the US please try to identify who this should be sent to and what is
> his/her contact details? Also, I don?t know if I should sign it the way I
> did ? I did it as I think we need to have a name rather than just NCUC.
>
> The letter needs to be sent today as presumably tomorrow PIPA is headed
> for a mark-up.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> KK
>
>
> Dr. Konstantinos Komaitis,
>
> Senior Lecturer,
> Director of Postgraduate Instructional Courses
> Director of LLM Information Technology and Telecommunications Law
> University of Strathclyde,
> The Law School,
> Graham Hills building,
> 50 George Street, Glasgow G1 1BA
> UK
> tel: +44 (0)141 548 4306<tel:%2B44%20%280%29141%20548%204306>
>
> http://www.routledgemedia.com/books/The-Current-State-of-Domain-Name-Regulation-isbn9780415477765
> Selected publications:
> http://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=501038
> Website: www.komaitis.org<http://www.komaitis.org/>
>
>
>
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