[GPSCC-chat] THURSDAY 12:50 pm - Stopping SOPA: Copyright, Free Speech, Popular Constitutionalism

[Brian Good]

During late 2011 and January 2012, millions of people protested the 
passage of the controversial copyright bill, 
the Stop Online Piracy Act 
(SOPA), in Congress. The protests culminated in the largest online 
protest in the 
history of the Internet, with web giant Wikipedia and 
thousands of other websites going black in a day of
self-censorship. In a
 few short months, the protesters achieved something remarkable: they 
defeated money,
politicians, Hollywood, and the copyright lobby, all in 
the name of a “free and open Internet.” 

This talk with Professor Edward 
Lee explains these grassroots movements as a form of popular 
constitutionalism. 
Courts didn't define speech rights. People did. And, 
in the end, it was the people's view of free speech that 
carried the 
day.

http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-speaker-series-stopping-sopa-copyright-free-speech-and-popular-constitutionalism

                                                 When: Thursday, November 15, 2012
                                                          12:50pm - 2:00pm
                                                  Stanford Law School - Room 280B
                                             559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305
                                                    Free and open to the public.
                                             RSVP for this Free Event Today:
                     http://enews.law.stanford.edu/t/r-l-kkutjhl-jlhlhjurc-t/ 

 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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