What’s SOPA
Filed Under (community, Digital Media News, google, government, integratePR, Law and technology, online presence, PIPA, SOPA) by integratePR on 18-01-2012
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a House response to the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) that is under consideration in the Senate. These bills would require internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites that infringe on copyrights.
Simply put, anything that you re-post that is not your original content would be considered a copyright infringement. In many countries with internet access, online piracy is a massive problem for the industry, in China alone it costs $250 billion per year. However, this means potentially that anything you Re-Tumble, Re-Tweet or Re-tag could be considered piracy. These publishing laws would affect some of the most well-known and heavily trafficked sites on the web. Virtually everything on Wikipedia, Youtube, and Tumblr would be illegal to publish.
Internet giants who are fighting against the bill have made this an international day of protest by “blacking out” their websites.
Wikipedia
WordPress
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