Wikipedia:SOPA initiative/Ideas

Already, many of members of Congress are asking for public input around the issue. We are paying close attention to those opportunities, as well as to public input to the Administration.

Washington needs to hear your best ideas about how to clamp down on rogue websites and other criminals who make money off the creative efforts of American artists and rights holders. We should all be committed to working with all interested constituencies to develop new legal tools to protect global intellectual property rights without jeopardizing the openness of the Internet. Our hope is that you will bring enthusiasm and know-how to this important challenge.

— Official White House Response to Petitions

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Best and Brightest

I have been here only a short while, but have been dumbfounded at the levels of genius here at Wikipedia. It is a melting pot of the brightest minds in the World. Please take the time to spell out your thoughts on what would make any Legislation that intended to combat online piracy something that would work without harm. I know you have the knowledge to do what Lawmakers have not been able to do. Please share that knowledge. Respectfully, Petersontinam (talk) 01:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions

• As an immediate programme:
  • Remove property protection from intellectual expressions, patents, creative works and the like, allowing for freedom to duplicate works or re-use works in any form not licensed below;
  • introduce a right to be identified as the author of nominated work, and to have the ability to licence (without fee, or right to decline reproduction) works to reproduced invariant, for currently living natural persons as sole authors only during the term of their life;
  • introduce a universal social wage.
• The harm of property restrictions, especially those in the possession of unnatural persons, would be removed from the generation of human culture (a common good), and the introduction of a social wage would allow for creators of intellectual expressions to subsist at the level of all other members of society while producing. (This proposal largely borrowed from Wages for housework). Fifelfoo (talk) 03:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Concepts

• Research and experience have shown that preventing monetization is an effective strategy against cyber crime. That should be the focus of new legislation.

• People don't want web sites taken offline, as that tactic could be abused to stifle whistleblowers, competitors, or free speech.

• Any enforcement action must permit the accused a full and fair hearing. There can be no penalties applied based upon an accusation alone.

• Web site operators acting in good faith must not be sanctioned for occasional bad behavior by their sites' users. The DMCA's safe harbor provision must be reaffirmed.

• Litigation must not be vexatious. The powerful and rich may not inundate the weak with lawsuits.