Ron Wyden has pledged to fillibuster upcoming legislation that will allow internet censorship.
His plan? To read the names of every citizen who signs on to his petition protesting censorship on the House Floor...
You can click here to learn more and to add your name to his growing list.
discussions like those we have here on the West Seattle Blog Forum are too important to let someone censor them away...
The Bill in question: (I think the Senate Hold is enough, the reading of names is a filibuster tactic.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combating_Online_Infringement_and_Counterfeits_Act
It will resurface as the Protect IP act this next session.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act
And several Dems thought to be progressive are on the bandwagon. At least one of them has several books in print and several of the dems are well known to have a tenuous grasp of technology and nearly all the repubs have proven a tenuous link with reality in general.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary
The mmpa and riaa will always fund the guilty until proven innocent provisions of any proposed law. The entertainment unions have to go along since the studio financial complex is finely balanced between the weasels and the sharks.
I believe copyright should return to the original 14 years included in the constitution. ON a side note: Walt Disney mined the public domain for thousands of stories and characters now copyrighted by Disney Inc. for infinity or close to it.
At the Constitutional Convention 1787 both James Madison of Virginia and Charles Pinckney of South Carolina submitted proposals that would allow Congress the power to grant copyright for a limited time. These proposals are the origin of the Copyright Clause in the United States Constitution, which allows the granting of copyright and patents for a limited time to serve a utilitarian function, namely "to promote the progress of science and useful arts". The first federal copyright act, the Copyright Act of 1790 granted copyright for a term of "fourteen years from the time of recording the title thereof", with a right of renewal for another fourteen years if the author survived to the end of the first term. The act covered not only books, but also maps and charts. With exception of the provision on maps and charts the Copyright Act of 1790 is copied almost verbatim from the Statute of Anne.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Early_US_copyright_law
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