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Via Scoop.it<\/a> – Rights & Liberties<\/a>

Ninety law profs from across the political spectrum agree: the PROTECT IP Act, Hollywood’s latest anti-piracy proposal, would be an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & LibertiesNinety law profs from across the political spectrum agree: the PROTECT IP Act, Hollywood’s latest anti-piracy proposal, would be an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.Show original<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1814,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/09\/26\/aspects-of-aadhaar-indias-biometric-id-struck-down-as-unconstitutional\/","url_meta":{"origin":1561,"position":0},"title":"Aspects of Aadhaar, India’s biometric ID, struck down as unconstitutional.","author":"aslam","date":"September 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/breaking-sections-33247-national-security-exception-gone-private-entities-cannot-demand-aadhaar-data\/ (Includes full text of the decision.) 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