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<br><div>During late 2011 and January 2012, millions of people protested the
passage of the controversial copyright bill, <br>the Stop Online Piracy Act
(SOPA), in Congress. The protests culminated in the largest online
protest in the <br>history of the Internet, with web giant Wikipedia and
thousands of other websites going black in a day of<br>self-censorship. In a
few short months, the protesters achieved something remarkable: they
defeated money,<br>politicians, Hollywood, and the copyright lobby, all in
the name of a “free and open Internet.” <br><br>This talk with Professor Edward
Lee explains these grassroots movements as a form of popular
constitutionalism. <br>Courts didn't define speech rights. People did. And,
in the end, it was the people's view of free speech that <br>carried the
day.<br><br><font style="font-size:10pt" face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-speaker-series-stopping-sopa-copyright-free-speech-and-popular-constitutionalism" class="ecx" target="_blank">http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-speaker-series-stopping-sopa-copyright-free-speech-and-popular-constitutionalism</a></font><br><br><pre> When: Thursday, November 15, 2012<br> 12:50pm - 2:00pm<br> Stanford Law School - Room 280B<br> 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305<br> Free and open to the public.<br> RSVP for this Free Event Today:<br> <a href="http://enews.law.stanford.edu/t/r-l-kkutjhl-jlhlhjurc-t/" target="_blank">http://enews.law.stanford.edu/t/r-l-kkutjhl-jlhlhjurc-t/</a> <br></pre><br></div> </div></div> </div></body>
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