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IP-Watch.com, 20 January 2012, Author: William New

The new age of lobbying through online public engagement showed its effectiveness today as the Senate announced the postponement of next weeks vote on controversial anti-piracy legislation that led to unprecedented protests on the internet.

MattsMarketingBlog.com, 19 January 2012, Author: Matt Carter

OK so I had heard of the SOPA bill, Stop Online Piracy Act, that is being passed around the US senate lately, but I never quite realized how bad this thing really is, that is until I went to Wikipedia today,

News.ConsumerReports.org, 19 January 2012, Author: Maggie Shader

File-sharing site Megaupload.com was shut down today, and federal prosecutors charged its founder and several company executives with violating piracy laws.

SearchEngineWatch.com, 19 January 2012, Author: Danny Goodwin

In September, Senators questioned whether Google had too much power. Lawmakers got a taste of just how much power Google can wield yesterday.

News.ConsumerReports.org, 19 January 2012, Author: Marc Perton

Yesterday"s mass protests about the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills have yielded some positive results: At least 18 members of Congress -- including several PIPA co-sponsors -- have withdrawn their support for the legislation. And Wikipedia, which went dark for the day, saw its traffic go up, as visitors used the site"s SOPA page as a resource for information about the issue.

DomainNameWire.com, 19 January 2012, Author: Unknown

Court to decide two aspects of dispute between Moniker founder Monte Cahn and his former employer.

SearchEngineWatch.com, 18 January 2012, Author: Miranda Miller

SOPA is proving to be more resilient than many had hoped, with Rep. Lamar Smith, its chief sponsor, vowing to bring it back for markup in February, just days after the White House released a statement that they would not support it. While many cheered, SOPA is dead! the statement was not a bill killer... not even close.

IP-Watch.org, 18 January 2012, Author: William New

The United States Supreme Court today ruled on one of the top intellectual property legal cases expected this year. The case questioned whether the US Congress acted constitutionally when it restored copyright to millions of foreign works that had been in the public domain in the US. And it affirmed Congress actions, allowing the US to avoid questions of compliance with its international obligations.

IP-Watch.org, 18 January 2012, Author: William New

In an unprecedented action suggesting intellectual property rights have bumped up against an access threshold, thousands of websites have gone dark today in protest against two draft anti-piracy and counterfeiting bills in the US Congress that the protestors say would harm freedoms online. The protest includes major technology firms like Google, Mozilla, Wikipedia, Flikr, Reddit, Vimeo and WordPress.

LifeHacker.com, 18 January 2012, Author: Adam Dachis

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are two bills that sound like they have a mildly positive aim but, in reality, have serious potential to negatively change the internet as we know it.