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Justice Department freezes music blog for a year supposedly for copyright infringement

donal brown December 12, 2011

The Justice Department seized the assets of a popular music blog, Dajaz1, reportedly for violations of copyright, but did not give the blog a day in court to fight the action. Writing in TechDirt, Mike Masnick says it was an outrageous act, “I suspect that nearly all of you [readers] would say that’s a classic case of prior restraint, a massive First Amendment violation, and exactly the kind of thing that does not, or should

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Trade agency may lack resources to enforce proposed online piracy law

donal brown December 8, 2011

The International Trade Commission may lack the money and staff fight Internet piracy of movies under laws currently under consideration in Congress according to lawyers who handle cases before the commission. The lawyers point out that few in the commission are qualified to in the area of digital rights and many more employees would have to come aboard for the commission to be effective. -db From Bloomberg Businessweek, December 7, 2011, by Eric Engleman and

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Lawmakers propose alternative to entertainment industry-backed online piracy bill

donal brown December 6, 2011

Congressional critics of the entertainment industry-backed online piracy law have introduced a bill that would change existing trade laws to reflect that illegally downloading copyright content from foreign-owned web sites would constitute foreign imports. That would allow the International Trade Commission the power to decide if the imports violated intellectual property rights. The critics say this approach would avoid the problems of the proposed online piracy acts which give the government and industry too much

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Opinion: China’s censorship regimen spreading around the world

donal brown November 28, 2011

Totalitarian regimes around the world are successfully using the Chinese model of censorship against their citizens, reports David Rohde in a commentary for Reuters. Rohde says the Stop Online Piracy Act would seriously erode the ability of the United States to fight the new tide of international Internet censorship. -db From a commentary for Reuters, November 18, 2011, by David Rohde. Full story  

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