Online Copyright Infringement and Counterfeiting : Legislation in the 112th Congress

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Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division

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Provides overview of Federal laws that apply to particular unlawful online activity, including brief legislative history of online copyright infringement and counterfeiting legislation. Summarizes ...

Provides overview of Federal laws that apply to particular unlawful online activity, including brief legislative history of online copyright infringement and counterfeiting legislation. Summarizes provisions of S. 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, and H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, both to address jurisdictional problem of holding foreign websites accountable for piracy and counterfeiting by authorizing new enforcement mechanisms against domestic sites that facilitate infringing activities, and by creating new obligations for U.S.-based domain name servers, Internet advertisers, search engines, and financial transaction providers to address such harm to intellectual property rights holders. Discusses debate about the changes to existing law that are proposed by these two bills.

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