Published December 19 by the Stanford Law Review Online, the article details "potentially disastrous consequences" of two pieces of federal legislation pending in Congress related to the Internet and intellectual property law.
Levine coauthored the article with Mark Lemley, the William H. Neukom Professor at Stanford Law School, and David Post, a Professor at Beasley School of Law, Temple University.
The introduction to the article reads as follows:
“Two bills now pending in Congress—the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (Protect IP) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement. Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internet’s addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internet’s extraordinary growth, and for free expression.”
Click here to read the article in full.
Reporting and discussion of the article was featured on the following online news outlets and blogs: Forbes, Slashdot, Boing Boing, The Volokh Conspiracy, Concurring Opinions, techmeme.com, reddit.com, and others.
UPDATE (Jan. 19, 2012): Click here for an article in Corporate Counsel featuring insights from Levine on about the January 18 Internet blackouts from Wikipedia and Google protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act. Click here for a WFMY News 2 interview with Levine exploring the legislation.