User blog comment:Geniusguy445/Hey, Americans/@comment-70.17.33.110-20120101042058/@comment-70.104.87.141-20120103013218

(Element Knight 375): It's not just that, though. This act would take down a ton of pages on the wiki if it went into effect.

Anyway, regardless of how it turns out, I did some reading about copyrights. Under the current laws, something is only a copyright violation if:

a. Someone else takes credit for the fixed intellectual property of another

b. Someone copies and/or copies and sells the copyrighted property of another without gaining permission or paying the creator OR

c. Does both.

Since we are a fanon wiki and not an official site or marketing company, we are currently not liable for copyright infringement as it is. If the concern were to come up, one strategy might be end-marks: one of the best protections against charges of infringement (as long as you really aren't guilty, which we aren't) is putting up a warning that the expression or title is the intellectual property of another entity. The only concern is that it might be interpreted as a statement of our possessing the property, but as a fanon wiki that isn't likely.

As a closer, however, we can take comfort in the fact that this is a bill. Regardless of governmental opinion on the First Amendment, the fact still stands that barely any bills ever get passed because of checks and balances. The odds that this bill will pass, taking into consideration the pass rate of bills in America, the fact that most of the Internet is probably against it, and that it's not necessary to society right now, are ASTRONOMICAL. We don't need to stress about this.