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Wednesday is American Censorship Day

Organized by Fight for the Future, American Censorship Day protests the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) that will appear before the House Judiciary committee this Wednesday.

The Act creates new laws that “protect” (read: does the bidding of) large copyright holders such as movie studies and record labels by allowing them to send Internet Service Providers take down notice of sites they believe are infringing their copyright with no judicial review required. If a site has any sort of e-commerce on it, the copyright holders can send notice to companies that process payment (eg., PayPal, Visa, etc.) and they, in turn, will discontinue all transactions. Again, this comes with no judicial review.

Organizations joining Fight for the Future in promoting American Censorship Day include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the Free Software Foundation and Demand Progress among others.

The EFF has a primer on the bill here. The link also includes ways to contact your representatives about the measure.

AmericanCensorship.org has clever ways Web site operators can promote the day and raise awareness about SOPA.

Related: Jason Mazzone has a new book out called Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law. The book explores how US copyright law has become abused mainly due to the power it gives copyright holders. You can read his description of the book at TorrentFreak as well as his thoughts on the privatization of copyright law.

Copyfraud is based on a 2006 paper Mazzone wrote that appeared in the New York Law Review and can be downloaded from the SSRN.

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