The+implications+of+SOPA+in+education

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As far as I understood, the U.S. government agencies and private companies will be enabled by PIPA and SOPA to begin a hunt for any little bit of possible copyright violation on internet. Blog owners or webpage designers must be a lot more careful with what they write or publish because if these laws are passed, they will be responsible for everything that is displayed on their site, including the comments of visitors. This affects us enormously due to the fact that we teachers need to have blogs, wikis, facebook accounts, etc. in order to share material that many times is taken from the net with our learners, or maybe we just upload recorded material and if we do so, what will happen next? Will we be practicing piracy? Will it stop innovation in teaching? Will we have to create our own material to teach? Of course we know that if these laws pass in the U.S., they will be soon in other countries and we teachers will have to look for another form of communication with our learners.