The Big List Of SOPA Links

SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act H.R. 3261) is proposed legislation before the U.S. House of Representatives that would require search engines, advertisers, ISPs and other key internet players to police content and take active moves to take down allegedly infringing content.

Want to know more about why SOPA is a big deal for marketers? Check out our What All Marketers Need To Know About SOPA – The Stop Online Piracy Act.

Meanwhile, here’s a list of links for more information, categorized by topic.

Legislation (Summary and Full Text)

• H.R. 3261: Stop Online Privacy Act

• S. 968: Protect IP Act

Organizations For SOPA

Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Creative America

Copyright Alliance

• “Digital thieves are stealing from me” (via The Hill)

Letters and Statements in Support for SOPA (via U.S. House Judiciary Committee Web Site)

Organizations Against SOPA

Center for Democracy & Technology

• List of Companies, Organizations, and Individuals With Concerns About SOPA

Electronic Frontier Foundation

• How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries (via EFF)

Engine Advocacy

Stop American Censorship

An Open Letter to Washington

The letter is signed by the founders of Blogger, craigslist, Flickr, Hunch, Google, Huffington Post, Internet Archive, LinkedIn, Netscape, Obvious, Paypal, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube, and Wikipedia/Wikimedia.

NY Times Op/Ed: Stop the Great Firewall of America

Library Copyright Alliance Writes Letter to House Judiciary Committee Regarding Stop Online Piracy Act

Revisions and OPEN

• Proposed Revision to SOPA: Some Welcome Cuts, But Major Concerns Remain (via Center for Democracy & Technology)
• Rep. Issa, Sen. Wyden unveil competing bill to Judiciary’s Stop Online Piracy Act (via The Hill)
• Statement From Copyright Alliance Executive Director Sandra Aistars, RE: House Judiciary Committee’s Manager’s Amendment to the Stop Online Piracy Act

Reports

• Web Companies, Movie Studios Face Off Over Competing Anti-Piracy Bills (via WSJ.com)

• SOPA revolvers: Sixteen former Judiciary staffers lobby on online copyright issues (via Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group)

• Smith fires back at SOPA critics (via Politico)

• SOPA critics are ready for a showdown (via Mcleans.ca)

• MPAA’s Dodd says Hollywood is pro-Internet but anti-piracy (via Los Angeles Times)

• Media and Entertainment Companies Add Support to Proposed Antipiracy Legislation (via NY Times) ||| NOTE: Copy of the letter/advertisement mentioned in the NY Times Article (via Creative America)

• Taking The Shrill Out Of The SOPA Piracy Debate (via paidContent.org)

Video

• Eric Schmidt Discusses SOPA and Other Topics (Economic Club of Washington via C-SPAN)

• CNN Report on SOPA, Association of Research Libraries Official Interviewed

• Video of Anti-SOPA Press Conference and Panel Discussion Organized by Public Knowledge, Demand Progress, Computer and Communications Industry Association, Americans for Job Security, Don’t Censor the Net and the CEA. (Recorded on November 15, 2011)

+ Video: Comments by Rep. Daryl Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)
+ Video: Panel Discussion, Part 1
+ Video: Panel Discussion, Part 2
+ Video: Panel Discussion, Part 3
+ Video: Panel Discussion, Part 4

SOPA Hearing Before U.S. House Judiciary Committee (November 16, 2011)

Archived Video and Witness List and Prepared Testimony

Runs about 3.5 hours. Video loads slowly.