Intellectual Property
Feb. 22, 2012
The burden of online misdeeds: Who should be responsible?
Online material may be hosted anywhere in the world, making it difficult to determine who is responsible for what. By Michael Davis-Wilson of Fenwich & West LLP
On Jan. 18, the Internet had its first general strike. Dozens of websites shut down in protest of two bills making their way through Congress - the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act. The bills' supporters argued that they provided essential tools to force intellectual property infringement off the Internet, but opponents feared that those same tools could be used to quash speech and suppress innovation. Millions of people signe...
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