At the end of February, Junior Minister of Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, proceeded with a Statutory Instrument which purported to bring Irish law in line with the European Union (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2012. The so-called “Irish SOPA”. This action occurred despite an online petition which garnered over 80,000 signatures in protest of the […]
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SOPA: what’s it all about?
The denizens of the Internet have been shaken out of their reveries today, as major players close up shop in protest of the proposed US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) are two controversial bills which have been proposed in the United States in an effort to combat copyright […]
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