[liberationtech] 11/15 - Stopping SOPA: Copyright, Free Speech, and Popular Constitutionalism

[Maira Sutton]

Hi Yosem,

I'm really interested in hearing this talk but may not be able to make it
down to Stanford from the city.
Will this talk also be webcast?

Many thanks,

Maira


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Maira I. Sutton
International Intellectual Property Coordinator
Electronic Frontier Foundation - www.eff.org
maira at eff.org
maira.sutton at gmail.com (personal email)
415.436.9333 x175



On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>wrote:

> When: Thursday, November 15, 2012
> 12:50pm - 2:00pm
> Stanford Law School - Room 280B
> 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305
> Free and open to the public.
>
> To RSVP, click here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGs0SER2U2lUdmhnc1liY0Y1ZkZlc1E6MQ#gid=0
>
> During late 2011 and January 2012, millions of people protested the
> passage of the controversial copyright bill the Stop Online Piracy Act
> (SOPA) in Congress. The protests culminated in the largest online
> protest in the history of the Internet, with web giant Wikipedia and
> thousands of other websites going black in a day of self-censorship.
> In a few short months, the protesters achieved something remarkable:
> they defeated money, politicians, Hollywood, and the copyright lobby,
> all in the name of a “free and open Internet.” This talk with
> Professor Edward Lee, explains these grassroots movements as a form of
> popular constitutionalism. Courts didn't define speech rights. People
> did. And, in the end, it was the people's view of free speech that
> carried the day.
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