Forum: Proposed copyright penalty legislation
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4. Any user who, prior to the effective date of this legislation amended to the copyright policy, was illegally uploading an copyrighted or posting a article that copyrighted material from shall be blocked ninety hours from such effective date to do any of the following with being subject to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):
(1). Delete the copyrighted image or an article that has copyrighted material from other media sources;
(2). Render the user's editing and viewing privileges permanently inoperable; and
(3). Surrender user data of the illegally uploaded copyrighted image or posted article of copyrighted material from other media sources to the user's internet service provider for termination of service, subject to specific terms of service regulations.
[edit] Discussion
Each member will leave a comment in discussion before proceeding to a vote. Amendments are welcome to be added.
[edit] Amendments
Amendment by Jtaylor1:
person is labeled a class A felon if such person willfully upload, post or link an image of the exterior of any intellectual property in this state where such image is uploaded by or with the links to a copyrighted photo, media article, or any other work that is not authorized by the copyright holder. This prohibition shall also apply where the derivative work does not reveal forms identifiable as celebrities or cartoon characters.
Amendment by Edtropolis:
(b) No intellectual property holder of any private corporation or organization shall allow any individual under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to upload, post, or link a derivative work on the premises of copyrighted material.
(a) For purposes of this section, "facsimile of an derivative work" means (1) any posting of a derivative work, as defined in subdivision (19) of section 53a-3 of the general statutes, which was uploaded, posted and linked since the enforcement of this amendment, or (2) any representation of a derivative, other than an infringment of an original intellectual work, that a reasonable person would understand was intended to infringe a copyrighted work; and "intellectual property" means any electronic methods that utilizes a facsimile of a derivative work as an unauthorized component of the intellectual property.
"Any person who violates the provisions of Amendment (b) of this Copyright policy shall have committed an infraction."
Sec. 2. (Effective on the enforcement of this amendment to the copyright policy) (a) There is established a Intellectual Property Task Force within the Central Bureaucracy to remove the derivative work of the intellectual property on the copyright holder's request...
b) The Bubblegum Wiki Intellectual Property Task Force shall: (1) Remove the uploads/posts/links of derivative works on intellectual work; (2) make recommendations to the Central Bureacracy for new or enhanced penalties to address the findings of the infringing work; (3) gather and maintain current penalties regarding violent video games that can be used to better understand the removal of violent video games by the copyright holder's request; and (4) advise the Central Bureacracy addressing the cooperation and administration of ISP providers that may reduce the infringement of intellectual properties on the copyright holder's request.
(c) Not later than the enactment of the amendment of the copyright policy, the task force shall submit in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes a report to the ISP and the joint standing committee of the Central Bureacracy having cognizance of matters relating to derivative works specifying the task force's findings and recommendations pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
[edit] Vote
3 to 1 vote is required to pass and amend into enactment.
Amendment by Jtaylor1 passed by 3-1 in favor.
Amendment by Edtropolis passed unanimously by 4-0 in favor.
Legislation passed by final vote by 3-1 in favor.
