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  • Senate moves bill with up to $15,000 fines for sharing memes online

    07/28/2019 2:18:26 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 53 replies
    theamericanmirror.com ^ | July 26, 2019 | VICTOR SKINNER
    A bi-partisan bill working its way through Congress could drastically change how copyright claims are processed, and would create a system to impose up to $30,000 in fines on anyone who shares protected material online. In other words, the Congress wants to make it easier to sue people who send a meme or post images that they didn’t create themselves, essentially a giveaway to lawyers who sue unsuspecting suckers for a living. The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved the “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019,” which “creates a voluntary small claims board within the Copyright Office that...