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Six Strikes is not a lawonly a 4 year private agreement.

Six 6 Strikes is Phoney it is only a MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING not a law.
Administering “six strikes” is a new entity called the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), which was established by the entertainment industry and the ISP industry. (Internet users were not part of the negotiations.) In other words, Internet users can be punished because of accusations by the copyright industry, but no one is necessarily verifying the claims.
First, this plan is not a law at all. It is a voluntary agreement between copyright holders and ISPs. Second, this plan does not mandate that ISPs completely cut subscribers’ Internet access. The burden of proof on the Internet subscriber, who must prove that he did not illegally download copyrighted content.

FINAL 7/6/2011 Agreed as of July 6, 2011
As of the Effective Date of this Agreement, the following entities are MPAA member company affiliates:

It is  a 4 year private agreement among the following:

  • The Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
  • The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
  • EMI Music North America
  • Sony Music Entertainment
  • Warner Music Group
  • UMG Recordings, Inc.
  • Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
  • Universal City Studios LLC
  • Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Fox Entertainment Group, Inc.,
  • Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
  • Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Disney Enterprises, Inc.,
  • NBC Universal Media LLC,
  • Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc.
  • Viacom, Inc.

AND These  Participating ISPs

  • SBC Internet Services, Inc.
  • BellSouthTelecommunications, Inc.
  • Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
  • Pacific BellTelephone Company
  • Illinois Bell Telephone Company
  • Indiana Bell TelephoneCompany
  • Incorporated,
  • Michigan Bell Telephone Company
  • Nevada Bell TelephoneCompany
  • The Ohio Bell Telephone Company
  • Wisconsin Bell, Inc.
  • The Southern NewEngland Telephone Company
  • BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. (the AT&T Inc.companies
  • Verizon Online LLC, VerizonOnline LLC –Maryland, and Verizon Online Pennsylvania Partnership (the Verizoncompanies)
  • Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC;
  • CSC Holdings,LLC (solely with respect to its cable systems operating in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut)(the Cablevision systems)
  • Time Warner Cable Inc.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/91987640/CCI-MOU

FAIR USE – KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
P2P networks and applications ARE LEGAL lawful online legitimate sources of content

Center for Copyright Infringement = CCI
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2402521,00.asp
Jill Lesser, CCI as executive director.who previously served as a First Amendment advocate for People for the American Way (PFAW), most recently served as a senior vice president for domestic public policy for AOL Time Warner. She now leads the CCI as executive director.
K-12 COPYRIGHT LAWS: PRIMER FOR TEACHERS
CCI Committee:
The executive board of the CCI includes: chairman Thomas Dailey, vice president and deputy general council at Verizon; executive vice president and general counsel Steven M. Marks, currently the executive vice president and general counsel at the RIAA; and members Marianne Grant, senior vice president for the MPAA; Alan Lewine, senior counsel for Comcast; Daniel Mandil, associate general counsel for Verizon; and Brent Olson, vice president of public policy for AT&T.
The advisory board is made up of Gigi Sohn, president and chief executive of Public Knowledge; Jerry Berman, chairman of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee; Marsali Hancock, president of iKeepSafe.org; and Jules Polenetsky, director of the Future of Privacy Forum.
CCI says. “The ISP will determine which of its subscriber accounts was allocated the specified IP address at the applicable date and time and then send an alert to the subscriber whose account has been identified. The alert will notify the subscriber that his/her account may have been misused for potentially illegal file sharing, explain and why the action is illegal and a violation of the ISP’s policies and provide advice about how to avoid receiving further alerts as well as how to locate film, television and music content legally.”
CCI also begins doing business as a number of judicial rulings have blocked copyright holders’ attempts to compel ISPs to divulge the IP addresses of customers without a formal lawsuit. The CCI’s partnership between the content creators and ISPs would sidestep that process.
ACCORDING TO THE CCI Executive Committee THEY GET TO DEFINE YOUR RIGHTS ACCORDING TO SOMEONE THEY PICK.
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2.4.  Fair Use
A Subscriber shall prevail on this defense if the Subscriber adequately and credibly demonstrates fair use of the copyrighted work under prevailing principles of copyright law (which shall be identified as described in section 6).
Page 35 Section 6. Legal Principles to Be Applied in Independent Review.
The Independent Review process will, to the extent relevant, apply prevailing legal principles as determined by United States federal courts. The Administering Organization will commission an accepted, independent expert on copyright law, who is approved by the CCI Executive Committee, to outline prevailing legal principles of fair use for purposes of deciding defenses of fair use, and any other legal principles necessary for resolution of issues within the scope of this Independent Review process. Such outline will be updated from time to time as necessary. If additional material questions of law arise as the Independent Review process is implemented, they may be referred to an accepted, independent expert approved by the CCI Executive Committee as needed. The Administering Organization will advise the Parties to the Agreement of issues referred to, and principles determined by, such an expert, and provide a process for the Parties to the Agreement to provide input concerning the issues, so as to ensure that the expert’s determinations are fully-informed and reflect prevailing law as determined by United States federal courts.
If additional material questions of law arise as the Independent Review process is implemented, they may be referred to an accepted, independent expert approved by the CCI Executive Committee as needed. The Administering Organization will advise the Parties to the Agreement of issues referred to, and principles determined by, such an expert, and provide a process for the Partiesto the Agreement to provide input concerning the issues, so as to ensure that the expert’s determinations are fully-informed and reflect prevailing law as determined by United States federal courts.
Guide to United States Copyright Law as Applied to Multimedia Productions
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The Next FCC Chair: Decisive Protector of the Public Interest

The Next FCC Chair: Decisive Protector of the Public Interest

The Next FCC Chair: Decisive Protector of the Public Interest
By Gigi Sohn
January 15, 2013
Even though current FCC Chair Julius Genachowski has not announced that he is leaving, there is still much talk about who is being considered to be his successor. In its never-ending fascination with the horse race of politics, the trade press has been throwing out names of the supposed frontrunners every few weeks or so.
But this focus on names is premature. Before we talk about who will be the next FCC Chair, there needs to be a conversation on the qualities the ideal candidate should possess. Because the issues and controversies that will come before the Commission over the next four years will be no less contentious than in the previous four.
The next Chair will preside over matters such as the transition to all IP networks, finalizing the incentive auction and spectrum screen proceedings, figuring out how to promote broadband competition, and of course, how to reinstate the agency’s authority (and indeed its relevance) should it lose the legal challenge to the open Internet rules. This is in addition to whatever transactions the Commission may be asked to decide by industry.
Is Comfortable as a Regulator
So what qualities should the next FCC Chair possess? First and foremost, the individual must be comfortable in the role of a regulator. This should not be taken to mean that the Chair should seek to regulate every industry out the yin-yang. But it does mean that where it is necessary to promote competition and/or protect consumers, the Chair must act, and decisively, with the understanding that in many regulatory battles there are winners and losers. And yes, that action should also include deregulation, particularly where regulations protect incumbents at the expense of competition.
A sound regulator also keeps fights out of the White House. As important as those of us in the telecom bubble think these issues are, for a President dealing with more fiscal cliffs and budget ceilings in front of him, agitation to pass laws governing gun control, immigration reform, and climate change, communications policy issues just don’t rate. And that’s why we have an independent FCC – to protect the public interest in those matters.
Understands the Role of Congress
The next FCC Chair needs also to understand the role of Congress, and that body’s limitations given how sharply divided it is. Let’s get real – an Obama FCC Chair is going to get pounded by the House telecom subcommittee and the full energy and commerce committee much of the time. The House may even vote to overrule decisions, like it did in 2011 with the resolution of disapproval on the open Internet rules. But the Senate, with more Democrats, a number of whom are very progressive, will not allow this FCC to be overruled. So there is no need for the next Chair to negotiate with herself in the fear that Congress will undo what it has done. This is not to say that the next Chair should thumb her nose at Congress – Congress is a critical partner for an agency to accomplish its goals. But the next Chair needs to recognize that it will be up to the FCC to be the ultimate decider of the difficult questions that will come before it.
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