PIPA, SOPA, OPEN Act, and CISPA: Annotated Bibliography

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Lemley, Mark, David S. Levine, and David G. Post. "Don't break the Internet."Stanford Law Review Online 64 (2011): 34. 25 Feb. 2014
Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology and is also the director of Stanford’s LLM Program in Law, Science, and Technology. Lemley has also authored seven books and 133 articles. David S. Levine the second author listed among this article is an associate Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law, and an Affiliate at the center for internet and society at Stanford Law School. David G. Post the third author of the article teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace at Temple University. All three esteemed and respected in their field of study have combined their efforts to make an article that outlines the dangers of internet censorship laws like SOPA which stand for Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA or Protect IP act of 2011 which stands for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act. Both act look to attack the internet’s technical infrastructure for those who infringe on copyrighted and trademark material. The roots of this act looks to treat those who use the internet as a criminal making user guilty until proven innocent, this type of policing would be a great detriment to the ability to share with sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr to name a few. Under SOPA, IP rights holders can proceed vigilante-style against allegedly offending sites, without any court hearing or any judicial intervention or oversight whatsoever giving the copyrighted companies unrestricted policing power again...

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Sanchez, Julian. CISPA Is Dead. Now Let’s Do a Cybersecurity Bill Right. 26 April 2013. Journal Article. 25 Feburary 2014. .
Segal, Julian Sanchez and David. Blackout Protesting SOPA, PIPA Bills Makes Statement on Censorship. 19 Novemeber 2012. Journal Article. 25 Feburary 2014. .
Shirky, Clay. The political power of social media: technology, the public sphere, and political change. Feburary 2011. Journal Article. 25 Feburary 2014. .

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