{"id":1519,"date":"2010-10-14T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T21:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2010-10-14T20:47:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:47:25","slug":"s-3804-government-internet-blacklist-whos-on-the-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2010\/10\/14\/s-3804-government-internet-blacklist-whos-on-the-case\/","title":{"rendered":"S. 3804 Government Internet Blacklist; Who&#8217;s on the case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/432px-Aaron_Swartz_profile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1520\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/432px-Aaron_Swartz_profile.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Swartz cofounder of Demand Progress\" width=\"432\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/432px-Aaron_Swartz_profile.jpg 432w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/432px-Aaron_Swartz_profile-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAaron Swartz cofounder of <strong>Demand Progress<\/strong> [WikiMedia Foundation]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Bill S. 3804 currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee would require internet service providers to block a domain if the court determines that copyright infringing material is\u00a0 &#8220;central to the activity of the Internet site&#8221;.\u00a0 As of now,\u00a0 a site like YouTube is in compliance with law if they remove infringing material when it is brought to their attention. Under they new law, they could be banned if a single copyright holder can convince the court that the total of all material of all copyright holders is &#8220;central to the activity of the Internet site&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Havard Center for Ethics Fellow Aaron Swartz together with Democratic Rhode Island State Representative David Segal have founded <a href=\"http:\/\/demandprogress.org\/\"><strong>Demand Progress<\/strong><\/a> which has taken on lobbying against S. 3804 as its first campaign. Their site has a petition against the bill. The site also has a petition urging President Obama to look for a substantial upgrade in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2010\/09\/21\/ap-wire-summers-to-leave-white-house-return-to-harvard\/\" target=\"_blank\">replacing the Late Larry Summers<\/a>.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The current director of Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethics.harvard.edu\/the-center\" target=\"_blank\">Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics<\/a> is Lawrence Lessig of <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_self\">Creative Commons<\/a> fame.\u00a0 Lessig is also part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkman Center for Internet and Society<\/a><sup>2,3<\/sup>,\u00a0but to my knowledge, they have yet to weigh in on this bill.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>To those of you new to <strong>the guy by the door<\/strong>, this nomenclature comes from asking the question, &#8220;Is there life after being the President of Harvard?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>In the interest of full disclosure, the guy by the door is hosted by The Berkman Center.<\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>My apology to another member of the Berkman Center,  Professor Charles Ogletree whom I heard testify at the commutation hearing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnoldking.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arnie Kin<\/a>g.\u00a0 Arnie is a great story, I need a bit more time to finish the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Swartz cofounder of Demand Progress [WikiMedia Foundation] Bill S. 3804 currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee would require internet service providers to block a domain if the court determines that copyright infringing material is\u00a0 &#8220;central to the activity of the Internet site&#8221;.\u00a0 As of now,\u00a0 a site like YouTube is in compliance with law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}