Please share this video with EVERYBODY! freedomforip.org Recently, we sat down with Brian Rowe and Marcus Barnes-Cannon to discuss Protect IP and what it actually means to not only our community, but anyone that uses the Internet. Brian Rowe (twitter.com is a professor and long-time contributor to nonprofits supporting IP. Currently, he is working with the National Justice Project while teaching at Seattle University School of Law and the University of Washington. Marcus Barnes-Cannon is a third-year law student at the Seattle University School of Law with a focus on intellectual property. He recently spoke at Gnomedex as part of the Seattle Interactive Conference on the matter of Protect IP and its impact on both commercial and non-commercial users. The Protect IP Act is a set of legislation that would dramatically change the way the government and copyright holders handle potentially infringing sites. If the DoJ or the copyright holder deems a site in violation, they would have the authority to go directly to various search engines, domain registrars, and social networking sites to have the site pretty much blocked from anyone being able to access it. This, of course, prior to any trial or due process that one might imagine needing to come before such a drastic action takes place. You can read the legislation for yourself here: www.opencongress.org SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a counter legislation currently being proposed in the House which takes a different (yet
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