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Life-Altering Copyright Lawsuits Could Come to Regular Internet Users Under a New Law

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 bill’s statutory damages provisions. Every single person who uses the Internet and regularly interacts with copyrighted works (that’s everyone) should contact their Senators to oppose this bill.

TELL THE SENATE NOT TO ENABLE COPYRIGHT TROLLS


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bureaucracy; copyright; freespeech; internet; legislation
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To: Brown Deer
Would Facebook and Google be liable for all the copyrighted material that they are sharing with the world?

Why wouldn't they?

61 posted on 07/17/2019 8:08:53 PM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bitt

Bkmk Copyrights


62 posted on 07/17/2019 8:34:25 PM PDT by ptsal
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