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DiegodelaPuenteSecondPaper 5 - 30 Nov 2011 - Main.DiegodelaPuente
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The Stop Online Piracy Act: the blindness continues | | | The Unfortunate Stop Online Piracy Act's discussion | |
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> | | | | Unfortunately, the U.S. Congress’ actual discussion about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), does not contribute to the Net development; on the contrary, it distracts the attention on real matters: copyright is no longer needed under the Net’s conception. In sum, SOPA tries to expand the U.S. Department of Justice and copyright holders’ power allowing seeking court orders against websites outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. As Representative Lamar Smith, one of the chief sponsors of the bill, said, SOPA is need because rogue websites are stealing and selling American innovations. Moreover, even SOPA’s most important detractors, Google, Facebook, AOL and Twitter, are only talking about Internet censorship or a chilling effect on speech, rather than proposing a change from the actual copyright framework in accordance of the new technological trends. | |
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> | | | | SOPA’s proponents, mainly, the Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, Business Software Alliance and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, say the bill will protect intellectual property market, including the resultant revenue and jobs; however, it is really protecting the earnings of the content industries monopolies. It seems that once again, as in the wireless telecommunications industry, the Law, in this case the copyright law, is the last to take notice of the changes that are taking place in the real world, because it is outdated and lacks of effectiveness in the Net.
For instance, discussing the music industry, SOPA is supposed to protect singers’ intellectual property, enabling them to pursue a profit. Some journalist, such as Dr. Robert Levine (former Billboard executive editor), thinks that the best way to save artists’ jobs is to strengthen copyright laws, by the way also opposing to the idea of a free an open Internet. I disagree with that statement and that opinion current opinion and consider that the actual copyright policy should change. | |
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