Law Professors Send Letter Opposing the PROTECT-IP Act to Lawmakers
A group of intellectual property professors (around 90 as of this writing) led by Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, and David G. Post have delivered a letter to Congress urging rejection of the PROTECT-IP Act of 2011 (S. 968). The professors stress that the bill’s drawbacks outweigh its benefits in terms of the way it addresses online copyright and trademark infringement. They argue that the bill is not constitutionally sound, has the potential to damage the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, and flies in the face of the United States’s history of supporting free expression on the Internet. Intellectual property owners currently have an array of tools to fight online infringement; this bill is unnecessary and a true threat to freedom of the Internet. Click here for more.
