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Catherine Murphy questions Minister Sherlock on Ireland’s proposed SOPA law
Press release | 26th January 2012
Catherine Murphy (Ind – Kildare North) today questioned Minister Seán Sherlock in relation to the proposed Statutory Instrument which the Government says is necessary to restate the position of European copyright law in Ireland. Deputy Murphy highlighted her concerns and the concerns of many thousands of citizens that the wording of the new law was “too vague” and would “leave it up to the Court to decide the grounds under which it may grant an injunction”.
She also strongly recommended that the measures should be enacted through primary legislation in the Oireachtas.
“The measures proposed in the Statutory Instrument made available today, referred to online as ‘Ireland’s SOPA’, have some serious potential consequences if enacted. It would leave it to our courts to fill in the blanks which the Oireachtas should be filling through primary legislation. It raises some serious concerns about Ireland’s reputation in a field which is one of the few potential growth areas and job-creating sectors we have at the moment.
Minister Sherlock responded by saying that the proposed law is merely a re-statement of existing regulation, and that he was “not averse to the idea of primary legislation” once all stakeholders came together to draft something workable. He called for a further debate on the matter.
Deputy Murphy continued “I’d urge Minister Sherlock to reconsider proceeding with this SI and come back to the House with detailed, well structured and balanced legislation in this area. I welcome his view that he is open to placing this into primary legislation and that further debate is desirable, and I’d call on the Government to follow through on this immediately. As whip of the technical group I will be pushing for this at first opportunity.”
You can view the full debate here (courtesy of thejournal.ie)
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Matthew Fitzpatrick
January 26, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Excellent work today TD Murphy, I feel vidicated that you have stood up to question this SI.
What I would like you to present to Minister Sherlock tomorrow is this:
This piece of legislation is really aimed at File Sharing. That is the downloading of illegally copied Films, TV Shows, Music, Books, Images and so forth.
However the nature in which File Sharing is conducted is immune to this form of legislation. For Example, one of the largest file sharing websites is thepiratebay.org. If an injunction were sought to block access to this web site all file sharing operations associated with this website would be completely unaffected.
Person to Person file sharing is just that, a file sharing session which takes place between fellow file sharers. As all thepiratebay.org does is host small files which act as “road maps” to pirated content, another Pirate bay could be built within a day.
This means that this SI only really serves to hurt those most vulnerable. Large websites like YouTube and so forth may be at risk, but small, user-generated web pages and indeed this very comment section would most definitely be threatened by this Legislation.
This SI is inappropriate and Orwellian. Do not allow Minister Sherlock to pass laws he does not understand.
le meas,
Maitiú Mac Giolla Phádraig.
Tadgh O'Connor
January 26, 2012 at 10:38 pm
I wish we had Independents as strong willed as you in South Kildare.
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