The IP Wars: SOPA & PIPA: Strengthening Legitimate Protections for Rights Holders Or an Attack on the Internet?

The Federalist Society & The Intellectual Property Society Present

The IP Wars: SOPA & PIPA

 Strengthening Legitimate Protections for Rights Holders 

Or an Attack on the Internet?

  Tuesday 1/31 · 12:00 · K2A

Temple Beasley School of Law

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Congress is currently considering a number of bills (the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the "Preventing Real Online  Threats  to  Economic  Creativity  and  Theft  of  Intellectual  Property" Act ("Protect-IP").  The bills have ignited a  firestorm of controversy -- between those who contend that they provide needed protection for US copyright- and trademark-holders faced with rampant online infringements on the one hand, and those who assert that the methods used in the bills will subvert critical Internet infrastructure and do substantial damage to the freedom of expression across the global network on the other.  Come hear what all the fuss  is about.

JUSTIN HUGHES teaches intellectual property, international trade, & internet law at Cardozo Law School & was the Director of the law school's Intellectual Property Program. Professor Hughes has also served as Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, & in that capacity leads many of the United States' delegations at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Before joining academia, Hughes did intellectual property policy in the Clinton Administration. As a Henry Luce Scholar, he clerked for the Lord President of the Malaysian Supreme Court in Kuala Lumpur.


DAVID POST is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Post clerked with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, & during her first term on the Supreme Court. He then spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual property law & high technology commercial transactions. Professor Post is a Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Fellow of the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a writer for the Volokh Conspiracy & the author of In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace.