Posted on 07/17/2019 4:31:42 AM PDT by Windflier
The Senate Judiciary Committee intends to vote on the CASE Act, legislation that would create a brand new quasi-court for copyright infringement claims. We have expressed numerous concerns with the legislation, and serious problems inherent with the bill have not been remedied by Congress before moving it forward.
In short, the bill would supercharge a copyright troll industry dedicated to filing as many small claims on as many Internet users as possible in order to make money through the bills statutory damages provisions. Every single person who uses the Internet and regularly interacts with copyrighted works (thats everyone) should contact their Senators to oppose this bill.
TELL THE SENATE NOT TO ENABLE COPYRIGHT TROLLS
Full title: Life-Altering Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law Moving in the Senate
That could jam-up our use of images big time!
Not to mention posting articles at ALL.
Is this something akin to the EU’s Articles 11 and 13...?
Sorry, I'm not familiar with EU rules and regs.
A 'Dark Day': Copyright Law That Threatens the Internet as We Know It Passes Final EU Vote
That court will be clogged with cases. Guess they want to build another big, new bureaucracy. Who’s going to pay for it? Not a hard guess.
No new court systems or tribunals to protect the “interests” of abusive monopolies ALL of which steal works by private citizens and abuse their OWN intellectual property rights of copyright.
The news steal “viral video” without pay every damn day.
Zapruder’s name would be unknown today and his footage would be considered “public domain” by the monopolies.
Nope Nope Nope.
If there are any 24/7 members on this thread, someone should direct this thread Rush Limbaugh’s way...
Links only... On the flip side it would be easy on server space. (sarc) Every website would have to be original material, or just nothing more than a simple link directory.
Not even joking. This is the anti-meme gestapo and they are coming for Pepe, you and I...
This could be counter productive to those with copyrights also though. Free samples and exposure sells more popularity.
Bottom line is that Disney can afford to rent more Congressmen than you or I can. So Big Media can get whatever they want.
It’s not a coinkydink that this is coming after the EU’s passage of Articles 11 and 13....
Except Helen Thomas. They have been public domain for at least 300 years.
Part of the plan for the NEW WORLD ORDER. Look who voted to give away the internet.
Thanks. I had no idea the EU had passed such legislation.
Horrible.
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