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CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
SOPA
JENI VARGHESEPATENT DEPT.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
INTRODUCTION
Stop Online Piracy Act OR H.R. 3261
• A proposed law that was introduced in the US House of Representative.
• By Texas Republican Lamar Smith along with 12 co-sponsors on October 26, 2011.
• A similar bill in the U.S. Senate is titled Protect IP Act (PIPA) OR S.968.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
WHAT DOES SOPA MEAN?
SOPA is a United States Anti Piracy Bill to expand the ability of the U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.
• Primary focus of the SOPA legislation- prevent the threat of foreign sites hosting pirated material.
• Provides intellectual property owners in the United States the ability to target foreign sites against whom they have a copyright claim.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
GOAL
• PROTECTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF CONTENT CREATORS: Designed to tackle the problem of foreign based websites that sell pirated American movies and music.
• PROTECTION AGAINST FORGED WEBSITES SELLING GOODS THAT WERE EITHER MIS-BRANDED OR SIMPLY COUNTERFEIT
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
• To block foreign infringing websites publishing content which violates U.S. copyright laws.
• Stop the flow of revenue to infringing websites and ensure that the profits from American innovations go to American innovators.
• Promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating theft of U.S. property.
US currently lacks jurisdiction over infringing websites in other countries.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
HOW SOPA WORKS?
• The proposed bill gives the U.S. government through the office of the Attorney General the power to pursue court orders against any site believing to be engaged in copyright infringement.
• The Act puts pressure on companies and services like Internet service providers, search engines, payment network providers and Internet advertising services within the United States, to block/discontinue their services to the foreign infringing websites.
• If the Act becomes law, the above entities will have to comply with a strict set of rules (designed to cut off the foreign infringing site) if the attorney general serves them a court order. They will have to act on those rules within five days of receiving the court order.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
Cont..• the Act requires: (i) Internet Service Providers to block users within the
United States from accessing the infringing site. (ii) search engines will have to remove all direct hyperlinks
to an infringing site. (iii) payment network providers would be required to cut off
funds to infringing sites. (iv) advertising services wouldn't be allowed to serve up ads
on the infringing site nor could they produce any advertisements for the site itself.
Eg: If Site X has infringed copyright law, services connected to Site X like advertisers, payment processor etc will have to remove Site X from its services within 5 days or will be considered to be violating the law. A search engine (eg: Google) which has indexed Site X, will have to remove it from its listings and the DNS registry which directs queries regarding Site X to the correct IP will have to remove the same from its Registry. Both the search engine and the DNS registry will have to do so within five days or they shall be considered to be violating the law.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
Cont..
Payment Processor
Advertisers
SIT
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’
Search Engine
Domain Name System Registry
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
Cont..
• The Bill also covers the act of streaming copyrighted content or ‘facilitating’ such content. For unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, maximum penalty is five years in prison.
• There are also sections that target sites that offer up counterfeit goods especially pharmaceutical goods.
• Any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is involved in copyright infringement would be liable for damages.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
RISKS/DRAWBACKS
• Almost all the actions under SOPA target sites that link to or otherwise support the identified criminal site.
• Entire website can be blocked irrespective of the amount of infringing content.
• Language in the house bill is too vague that it may allow content owners to target U.S. websites that aren't knowingly hosting the pirated content.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
Cont..
• The Bill would not be able to stop pirates. • The Bill would impose huge regulatory
costs.• The Bill would be devastating to the free
and open web.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
SOPA-SUPPORTERS
• Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
• The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Various Pharmaceutical industries and internet/tech companies
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
SOPA-OPPONENTS
Wikipedia
eBay
Paypal
WikiLeaks etc
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
PROTEST
• Tumblr, Mozilla, Techdirt, the Center for Democracy and Technology were among many Internet companies that protested by participating in American Censorship Day On November 16, 2011. They displayed black banners over their site logos with the words "STOP CENSORSHIP".
• Reddit blacked out its site for twelve hours on January 18, 2012.
• Google put a big black box over the prominent logo on its homepage with a link to a page from which users could sign a petition entitled “Tell Congress: Don’t censor the Web”. Google collected more than 7 million signatures from the United States.
• Other major internet sites such as Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL, LinkedIn, IAC, eBay, PayPal, Wordpress and Wikipedia committed to an "unprecedented" internet blackout on January 18, 2012.
• Street Protest were also held in New York, San Francisco and Seattle.
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
Cont..
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
OUTCOME/STATUS
OUTCOME IF BILL BECOMES LAW: Censored Internet
STATUS OF THE BILL: Temporarily Withdrawn
CHENNAI3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATOREBB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
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