SOPA sponsors break their own laws
Ars debunked this a couple of days ago:But we're also a news site, so we contacted James Grimmelmann, a copyright scholar at New York Law School, (and judging from his tweets, not a SOPA supporter) to get his expert opinion.He was skeptical. The new anti-streaming provisions would apply only to willful infringement. "A good-faith belief that one's actions are legal is sufficient to defeat a finding of willfulness," he told Ars. SOPA even codifies this principle by excluding from liability those who have "a good faith reasonable basis" to believe their conduct is not infringing."Even if the Representatives are infringing (and I think they have a good fair use defense, and may well have licenses we don't know about), they're unlikely to be willful infringers," he told Ars.He also pointed out Smith and his colleagues would only be liable if the value of the streaming performances exceeds $1,000, and it's not clear how valuable a few short clips of local news broadcasts are.http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/on-wednesday...