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The Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives in 2011 by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX). The bill aims to curb online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Opponents of the bill claim that it would harm free speech and internet innovation and create a climate of internet censorship. less -

Vague Definitions in CISPA Raise Concerns of SOPA 2.0

SOPA Didn’t Die. It Just Became Soft SOPA.

Fenwick & West LLP on 9/27/2013

January 2012 saw an explosion of controversy over two Internet-related bills that had been progressing through Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, and the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic...more

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Summer 2013

Fenwick & West LLP on 9/26/2013

Telecommunications in the 113th Congress

Mintz on 1/16/2013

The 112th Congress saw a lot of activity focused on new and changing technologies, but few legislative breakthroughs. Early in the year, there was significant activity around intellectual property and online piracy issues,...more

Most Popular Posts Of 2012

Gray Reed on 12/28/2012

Yes, it’s the lazy way to do a post during the week before Christmas and New Year. In my next post, we will use this information to help predict the trends of legal issues for online media, marketing, internet law and...more

McAfee & Taft tIPsheet - July 2012: When cyber-threat protection and privacy concerns collide By Ryan Lobato

McAfee & Taft on 7/5/2012

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (“CISPA”) is a pending legislative proposal aimed at protecting against cyber-threats and cyber-attacks. CISPA follows the much publicized and now effectively defunct...more

CISPA – Evil Spawn of SOPA and PIPA?

Sands Anderson PC on 5/4/2012

The House of Representatives has passed The Cyber Information and Security Protection Act, sponsored by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and introduced not long after SOPA and PIPA were abandoned in the wake of a popular uprising of...more

“No SOPA For You!” Why SOPA Led to Such an Acrimonious Fight and What We Can Learn From It

Greenberg Glusker LLP on 1/27/2012

If you read the paper, watch TV, listen to the radio or use the Internet, it’s been tough to avoid SOPA recently. (If you don’t, well, you’re probably hand-writing angry missives in a cabin and not reading this.) What we’ve...more

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