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UPDATE: Say No to Copyright Filtering in Broadband Stimulus
Hollywood’s lobbyists are running all over the Hill to sneak in a copyright filtering provision into the stimulus package. The amendment is very controversial for a couple of reasons:
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Copyright infringement can’t be determined just by seeing what files are flowing over the network. There are fair and lawful uses for copyrighted works even without permission of the owner.
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Filtering would require Internet companies to examine every bit of information everyone puts on the Web in order to find those allegedly infringing works, without a hint of probable cause. That would be a massive invasion of privacy, done at the request of one industry, violating the rights of everyone who is online.
UPDATE: The House and Senate stimulus packages passed without copyright filtering language attached, but now the concern is that the language could return in the closed-door conference committee that works out the differences between the bills. Right now, we need you to contact those conferees and tell them to leave out this controversial provision.
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