(Paul Joseph Watson) After Comcast suspended a user’s Internet access for downloading copyrighted material, some people are asking whether in the near future similar punishments could be inflicted for accessing ‘offensive content’.
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Opening the Door for Censorship: New Trademark Enforcement Mechanisms Added for Top-Level Domains
(Mitch Stoltz) With so much dissatisfaction over how companies like Facebook and YouTube moderate user speech, you might think that the groups that run the Internet’s infrastructure would want to stay far away from the speech-policing business. Sadly, two groups that control an important piece of the Internet’s infrastructure have decided to jump right in.
Life-Altering Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law Moving in the Senate
(Ernesto Falcon) The Senate Judiciary Committee intends to vote on the CASE Act, legislation that would create a brand new quasi-court for copyright infringement claims. We have expressed numerous concerns with the legislation, and serious problems inherent with the bill have not been remedied by Congress before moving it forward.
The Game of Trademark, Copyright, and Intellectual Property — Play or be Played | Clearing Misconceptions About IP
(Justin Deschamps) The issue of intellectual property is a contentious topic for many reasons, partially because the notion of “owning an idea” is generally an affront to freedom-minded people. Rightly so, given intellectual property laws have been abused by large corporations, like Monsanto, that sue farmers for having patented genetic material on their land—some claim, even if it wasn’t intentionally planted. Despite this, the current system of intellectual property can be used for good, and has by many small time content creators. Given the importance of this topic, addressing some misconceptions would be helpful.
SOPA.au: Australia is the Testbed for the World’s Most Extreme Copyright Blocks
(Cory Doctorow) It’s been three years since Australia adopted a national copyright blocking system, despite widespread public outcry over the abusive, far-reaching potential of the system, and the warnings that it would not its stated goal of preventing copyright infringement.
Is Your DNA Safe? You Might Be Unpleasantly Surprised By The Answer
(Collective Evolution) Have you used a service like Ancestry or 23andMe before? What about the last time you donated blood, genetic testing or a biopsy? We all want good health, to help others and put in our best for a good cause, but did you consider what happens with the results from those activities?
New Copyright Law Could Make Current and Future Internet Memes Illegal to Share
(John Vibes) A new “copyright directive” could change the internet forever by making it illegal to share memes online.