SOPA

5:49 pm on January 18, 2022 · aaron swartz (9), f2c (7), internet freedom (81), SOPA (14)

12 Streams 2021 #11 – Aaron Swartz – How We Stopped SOPA – Freedom to Connect, Washington DC, May 21 2012

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livestream

livestreamToday, Tuesday January 18 2022, at 6:15pm EST (23:15 UTC) in the 11th installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, on the 10th anniversary of the SOPA/PIPA Internet blackout, we feature a keynote by the late Aaron Swartz, ‘How We Stopped SOPA‘ from Freedom to Connect, Washington DC, May 21 2012.

VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-11 (Open captions)

TWITTER #12Streams #SOPAPlus10 @aaronsw #f2c #netfreedom

SIMULCASTS (Open captions)
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-11

2:15 pm on January 18, 2022 · internet freedom (81), public knowledge (8), SOPA (14)

WEBCAST JAN 18: How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet

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livestreamOn Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 2pm-3pm EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) Public Knowledge hosts a discussion ‘How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet‘. This month marks the anniversary of a series of coordinated protests that led to the withdrawal of two proposed laws in the United States Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The panel will consider how public interest values have shaped the internet so far, how the internet has changed since the 2012 blackouts, and how the public interest community must ensure they continue building a better internet for everyone.

PANEL
Catherine Stihler, CEO of Creative Commons
Spencer Overton, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
April Glaser, Fellow of the Technology & Social Change Project
Akriti Gaur, Resident Fellow, Yale Information Society Project

HOST / MODERATOR
Chris Lewis, President and CEO, Public Knowledge

This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/SOPAPlus10

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://publicknowledge.org/BetterInternet

REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3tABmLJ

TWITTER #BetterInternet #SOPAPlus10 @publicknowledge @C_Stihler @SpencerOverton @aprilaser @akritigaur @ChrisJ_Lewis @isocdc

SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions)

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/SOPAPlus10

1:29 pm on January 13, 2022 · georgetown (7), internet freedom (81), Konstantinos Komaitis (8), netfreedom (8), rebecca mackinnon (13), SOPA (14)

WEBCAST JAN 18 – Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout

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livestreamOn Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 11:00-12:30 EST (16:30-17:30 UTC) the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law hosts a webinar ‘Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout‘. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new report from Freedom House observes both the promise and peril of internet regulation. The global drive to control big tech thus carries a seeming contradiction: it can be an expression of democracy but can also support authoritarianism. On the tenth anniversary of the blackout of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Mozilla in response to proposed internet regulation in the U.S., we ask what we learned from the SOPA/PIPA debates, take stock of where internet regulation stands today, and ask what internet regulations carry the most promise or risk today.

OPENING CONVERSATION
Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia

PANEL
Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Allie Funk, Senior research analyst for technology and democracy, Freedom House
Vivek Krishnamurthy, Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
Konstantinos Komaitis, Independent Internet Policy consultant / Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation

HOST / MODERATOR
Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law

This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6

REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE)

TWITTER #FreedomOnTheNet @GtownTechLaw @jimmy_wales @AnupamChander @alfunk @kkomaitis @vivekdotca @rmack @freedomonthenet #netfreedom #netgov 

SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions)

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/sopa-pipa10

6:21 am on October 8, 2013 · ACTA (6), copyright (79), csusa (20), law (47), policy (40), SOPA (14)

WEBCAST TODAY: @RepHowardBerman on the Past and Future of #Copyright Legislation @thecsusa #sopa #acta

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CSUSA

CSUSAToday Tuesday 8 October 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA’s DC Chapter will present A Conversation with Rep. Howard Berman on the Past and Future of Copyright Legislation at George Washington University Law School in Washington DC. In 2012 Rep. Berman concluded a 30 year stint in the US Congress as a Democrat representing North Hollywood, California. Known as a firm supporter of the film industry, amongst his final acts were the authoring and promotion of both SOPA and ACTA. The event will be webcast by GWU’s in-house a/v team.

What: A Conversation with Rep. Howard Berman on the Past and Future of Copyright Legislation
Where: George Washington University Law School, Washington DC
When: Tuesday 8 October 2013 6pm EDT | 1400 UTC
Webcast: http://video.law.gwu.edu:8080/ess/portal/section/e1876066-66d4-4510-bf8c-bc17a02f1c00
Twitter @thecsusa | @rephowardberman

4:34 am on January 15, 2013 · aaron swartz (9), captions (4), f2c (7), SOPA (14)

VIDEO: F2C2012 Aaron Swartz keynote – “How we stopped SOPA” #F2C #SOPA @aaronsw

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Last May ISOC-NY sponsored the live webcast of the Freedom-to-Connect 2012 Conference (F2C2012) via the Internet Society Chapters webcasting channel. One of the keynote speakers was Aaron Swartz, who tragically died last week. Since then the archived video of his speech has been viewed over 300k times It headed Cory Doctorow’s obituary on Boing Boing, and yesterday, Monday January 14 2012, it ran in full on the Democracy Now! tv show. Thanks to the folks at Democracy Now!, we now also have a full transcript, and thus have been able to add captions to the original. A Spanish translation is underway at AMARA, needs help.

1:56 pm on September 27, 2012 · hollywood (1), Konstantinos Komaitis (8), Markus Kummer. leslie daigle (1), MPAA (4), paul brigner (10), PIPA (5), SOPA (14), ultraviolet (1)

VIDEO: ISOC goes to Hollywood @InternetSociety

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As you are likely aware Internet Society North America Bureau Director Paul Brigner’s previous job was CTO to the MPAA. Since “switching sides” in March 2012 he has strongly pursued a program of increasing communication and engagement between the Internet community and big content, including recruiting the MPAA, the RIAA, and Disney as organizational members.  This week he has led a foray by ISOC staff to visit major Hollywood studios – a listening tour. Accompanying him were Leslie Daigle (ISOC’s CTO), Markus Kummer (VP of Public Policy), and Konstantinos Komaitis (Policy Advisor).  Today, September 27 2012, the group reported to the North America Chapter leaders via Google Hangout. Video is here or below.

2:59 pm on April 20, 2012 · copyright (79), csusa (20), law (47), SOPA (14), USG (40), webcast (110)

Video: The SOPA OPERA – Mitch Glazier vs Andrew Bridges @thecsusa #sopa #copyright

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On February 28 2012 the Copyright Society of the USA‘s NY Chapter hosted “The SOPA OPERA: the Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”), the Protect IP Act, the OPEN Act and Related Recent Legislative Proposals: What was in the Bills, Why they Failed, and Where to Next.” at the Princeton Club in NYC. The event took the form a face-off between Mitch Glazier, Senior Executive Vice President of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), an organization that supports such legislation, and Andrew Bridges, Partner, Fenwick & West LLP, an eloquent opponent. The contest was ably refereed by Karyn Temple Claggett, Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs, United States Copyright Office. Video is below, use the iPod link to download.



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3:47 am on February 14, 2012 · copynight (2), copyright (79), SOPA (14)

#CopyNight #NYC February: The Defense of #SOPA 2/28

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CopyNight NYC February: The Defense of SOPA
https://www.eventbrite.com/event/2925677781

Did Hollywood have a leg to stand on? At our next CopyNight, join us for a great opportunity to talk one on one with one of SOPA’s supporters.  This is a chance to get into the more nuanced aspects of the drive for IP protection vs. the issues of security, free speech and privacy that have driven the debate so far. We will discuss the issues behind legislation as well as the general divide between Hollywood and tech.

Our speaker, Hillel I. Parness, is a practising attorney and partner with the New York-based firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi and an adjunct member of the IP faculty at Columbia University School of Law . His analysis of SOPA has been featured on ReadWriteWeb, the MPAA blog, and elsewhere. He will give a brief presentation followed by discussion.

CopyNight February will be at 7pm at Vig Bar, 12 Spring Street, Back Room. Tuesday, 2/28.

CopyNight is a monthly social gathering of people interested in restoring balance in copyright law. We meet over drinks once a month in many cities to discuss new developments and build social ties between artists, engineers, filmmakers, academics, lawyers, and many others. Join us in the back room.

http://copynight.org

5:25 pm on January 13, 2012 · nytm (8), PIPA (5), protest (1), SOPA (14)

EMERGENCY NY TECH MEETUP – Jan 18 2012 #SOPA #PIPA #nytmSOS #stopSOPA #nyc

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New York Tech Meetup

New York Tech MeetupThe NY Tech Meetup is organizing an Emergency Meetup to protest the proposed SOPA/PIPA Internet censorship legislation. The protest will take the form of a rally outside the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand on Jan 18 2012, which will also be a day of national protest including the blackout of many sites. The rally will immediately follow the live webcast of a related Senate Oversight Hearing at which Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures will speak. (postponed)

Confirmed speakers: Clay Shirky, Alexis Ohanian, Scott Heiferman, John Perry Barlow, Andrew McLaughlin, Eli Pariser, Tim Karr, and David Segal.

What: Emergency NY Tech Meetup
When: Wednesday January 18, 2012, 12:30-2:00PM
Where: 780 Third Ave (at 49th street) – outside the offices of New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand
RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/events/47879702/
Twitter: #nytmSOS
More info: http://nytm.org/sos

6:09 pm on December 14, 2011 · censorship (19), DNS (36), ICANN (193), internet freedom (81), ncuc (11), net freedom (7), SOPA (14)

@NCUC @ICANN to House – supporting #NetFreedom = rejecting #SOPA !

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NCUCTomorrow, December 15, 2011,  the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary will meet to markup and potentially vote in committee on H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” or SOPA. Today the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – of which ISOC-NY is a member – has written a letter to the House Committee expressing its profound concern with the proposed legislation, and the equivalent PROTECT-IP (PIPA) bill in the U.S. Senate, both of which would mandate the blocking and filtering of the Domain Name System (DNS).

In particular, the NCUC is very concerned with the provisions in both Bills relating to Domain Name System (DNS) filtering. As identified by numerous technical, legal and policy experts:

  • DNS filtering is often proposed as a way to block illegal content consumption by end users. Yet policies to mandate DNS filtering will be ineffective for that purpose and will interfere with cross-border data flows and services undermining innovation and social development across the globe.
  • Filtering DNS or blocking domain names does not remove the illegal content – it simply makes the content harder to find. Those who are determined to download filtered content can easily use a number of widely available, legitimately-proposed tools to circumvent DNS filtering regimes. As a result, DNS filtering encourages the creation of alternative, non-standard DNS systems.
  • DNS filtering and blocking raises human right and freedom of expression concerns, and often curtails international principles regarding the rule of law, due process and justice. Some countries have employed DNS filtering and blocking as a way to restrict access to the global Internet and to curb free speech.
  • The United States has historically advocated for freedom of expression and has been a strong proponent of online Internet freedoms. The United States Government has a significant responsibility to balance its domestic obligations and their potential global impact, especially with respect to Internet policy. Given its commitment to global Internet freedom, it would be detrimental to the global Internet if the United States were to insist on such an approach.

NCUC explains that the implications of legislation like PIPA and SOPA will be to have a negative impact upon the Internet’s design and can potentially create serious international political and legal problems. It will compromise Internet freedom held dearly by various organizations and institutions, like the OECD, the European Parliament, the Internet Society, and the Council of Europe – all of whom have committed to preserve this freedom and requested the United States to commit as well to preserving this freedom.

The letter ends with an appeal to the Committee to consider the viewpoints also expressed by a multitude of actors and organizations and not support legislation that undermines the global Internet.