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[Gisle Hannemyr <gisle AT ifi.uio.no>]

On 04.04.2012 20:14, Timothy Vollmer wrote:
> CC did take action on SOPA/PIPA and was formally opposed to that proposed
> legislation. The regulation would have been sweeping and would have
> directly affected platforms leveraging CC licensing at their core, such as
> Wikipedia and OER repositories such as Connexions. 

I am very surprised to learn that.

I've read carefully through SOPA and PIPA, and I cannot understand
why anyone who has bothered to read the text would think that SOPA
or PIPA would in any way "directly affect platforms leveraging CC
licensing".

Could you please explain how the CC arrived at this conclusion?

Sure, I've seen a lot of people in the social media making the *same*
assertion.  But repeating a lie often enough does *not* make it true
(but it often works out like that).

As an example, I've seen literally hundreds of commentators tweeting
that SOPA would enable law enforcement to take down *an entire domain*
due to something posted *on a single blog* hosted on that domain.
However, I am not aware of anything in the text if the SOPA proposal
*itself* that supports that assertion.

>From my perspective, the SOPA/PIPA incident was a tussle between
Hollywood and Silicon Valley.  Silicon Valley employed the best
spin-doctors, so they won - but that is about all there was to it

I am very disappointed to learn about CC taking a position in this
particular tussle - in effect lending its credibility and name
to the cause of the silicon valley companies that monetizes vast sums
of profit from on-line content without paying a penny to the creators
of that content.
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- gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ]
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