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Below is a list of 439 corporations, unions, law firms and other groups that have explicitly expressed their support of SOPA, or similar anti-piracy legislation. This list is derived from two sources: the official list (pdf) of SOPA supporters from the Judiciary Committee’s website, and a letter (pdf) addressed to Congress from the Global Intellectual Property Center, which is an affiliate of the US Chamber of Commerce.

For those of us that use Twitter, it’s an often mysterious and intangible process that happens once we hit the “tweet� button and our 140 character expression is launched out to the web universe.

This new concept displays a 3-D animal avatar as your reflection, mimicking your facial expressions in a horrifying, mocking way.

In another important victory for Internet users’ fundamental rights and the open Internet, the highest court in Europe ruled yesterday that social networks cannot be required to monitor and filter their users’ communications to prevent copyright infringement of music and movies. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that imposing a broad filtering obligation on social networks would require active monitoring of users’ files in violation of EU law and could undermine citizens’ freedom of expression.

GoSoapBox allows students to ask questions, vote up questions posed by their classmates, participate in discussions, or express confusion.

In its case against 26 major record labels at the Supreme Court in Canada, BitTorrent index isoHunt has submitted a response to the copyright infringement allegations. The BitTorrent site argues that not only do they pose no threat to the music industry, it's the copyright industry itself that's threatening the freedom of expression of millions of people on the Internet.

American Express is launching a new partnership with Twitter. The basic message is that they are leading the way on social media among big companies.

As we said last year, this deal is tilted against subscribers. That's not surprising, given that no one solicited subscriber input in advance. In fact, some online commenters have expressed concern that the agreement runs afoul of antitrust law.

Spanish music group Promusicae has sued Enrique Dans, professor at the IE Business School and a well-known blogger, after he claimed that the group is a copyright monopoly that violates antitrust laws. In addition to a public apology, the Spanish version of the RIAA is demanding 20,000 euros in damages. The professor, however, is prepared to fight the case until the bitter end and says he's protected by the right to freedom of expression.