<story><title>SOPA sponsors break their own laws</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-sponsors-break-their-own-law-111117/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nl</author><text>Ars debunked this a couple of days ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;But we&apos;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.&lt;p&gt;He was skeptical. The new anti-streaming provisions would apply only to willful infringement. &quot;A good-faith belief that one&apos;s actions are legal is sufficient to defeat a finding of willfulness,&quot; he told Ars. SOPA even codifies this principle by excluding from liability those who have &quot;a good faith reasonable basis&quot; to believe their conduct is not infringing.&lt;p&gt;&quot;Even if the Representatives are infringing (and I think they have a good fair use defense, and may well have licenses we don&apos;t know about), they&apos;re unlikely to be willful infringers,&quot; he told Ars.&lt;p&gt;He also pointed out Smith and his colleagues would only be liable if the value of the streaming performances exceeds $1,000, and it&apos;s not clear how valuable a few short clips of local news broadcasts are.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/on-wednesday-reddit-which-like.ars&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/on-wednesday...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>SOPA sponsors break their own laws</title><url>http://torrentfreak.com/sopa-sponsors-break-their-own-law-111117/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teja1990</author><text>The same thing happened in Germany ,the legislator who spear headed the Piracy Act&apos;s website itself had copyrighted images... I wish these people know what they are doing.</text></comment>