Sentence examples for copyright bill from inspiring English sources

While SOPA supporters have tried to present the copyright bill as a bipartisan effort to stop the "theft" of copyrighted material, the bipartisan opposition has been building fast this week.

The federal government recently pushed through an amendment to the copyright bill aimed at curtailing illegal downloads.

The "ancillary copyright" bill now makes clear that search engines can publish "individual words or small snippets of text such as headlines" without incurring any costs.

Opponents of a new copyright bill in Congress see the trade group's study as an overt political act intended to increase support for the proposed legislation.

When Congress passed the copyright bill in 1976, it created an important exception to the general principle that the person who creates a work of art is its author.

But the recording companies' trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, contends that the amendment is simply a clarification of the 1976 copyright bill, which, they say, covered recordings under the wording "collective works" and "compilations".

What Mr. Sherman accurately calls a "digital tsunami" was the voice of millions of ordinary Americans expressing their displeasure with extremist copyright bills — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) — favored by the association.

Poorly thought-through copyright bills seem to be popular in Congress these days.

It was, to be sure, the one topic he didn't bring up voluntarily in discussion in the middle of the crowd of people who more than likely helped to kill the copyright bills (PIPA and its evil House cousin, the Stop Online Piracy Act, aka SOPA).

Full disclosure: I'm not going to pretend that before this week that I know much about Swartz, a computer prodigy who created a website that evolved into the popular Reddit site at age 14, and then campaigned for freedom of information over the Internet, fighting against the Internet-copyright bill known as SOPA through a group called Demand Progress.

Well, the inevitable backlash over the online uprisings that foiled controversial pro-copyright bills SOPA and PIPA earlier this year is slowly rising to a boil.