Corporations, Companies, and Supporters of SOPA
Posted: January 15, 2012 Filed under: Business, Crime, Fashion, Film, Internet, Media, Sports, Strange, Style, Techology 5 Comments »If this Pastebin document, created by Anonymous members involved in Operation Hiroshima, is to be believed, the following companies lobbied Congress in support of SOPA.
I smell a boycott… and the weird thing about this list is, how are most of these companies affected by online piracy? Especially all these clothing companies…
PetMeds
3M
ABRO Industries, Inc.
Acushnet Company
Adidas America
Bose Coporation
Burberry
CBS Corporation
Chanel USA
Coach
Columbia Sportswear
Dolce & Gabbana
Electronic Arts, Inc. (individuals within have voiced opposition?)
Entertainment Software Association
Fender Musical Instrument Company
Ford Motor Company
Gibson Guitar Corp.
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Johnson & Johnson
Juicy Couture
kate spade
Lacoste USA
Leatherman Tool Group
Lexmark International
Liz Claiborne, Inc
L’Oréal USA
Major League Baseball
Marmot
Monster Cable Products, Inc.
National Basketball Association (NBA)
National Football League (NFL)
NBCUniversal
Nervous Tattoo Inc., dba Ed Hardy
New Balance Athletic Shoe
New Era Cap Co
NHL Enterprises
Nike, Inc.
Nintendo of America Inc. (individuals within have voiced opposition?)
Oakley, Inc.
Peavey Electronics Corporation
Petzl America
Pfizer Inc.
PGA of America
Philip Morris International
PING
Ralph Lauren Corporation
Red Wing Shoe Company
Reebok International Ltd.
Revlon
Rite Aid
Rolex Watch USA
Rosetta Stone Inc.
Shure Incorporated
Sony Electronics Inc.
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Spyder Active Sports, Inc
Taylor Guitars
The Dow Chemical Company
The Estee Lauder Companies
The Timberland Company
The Walt Disney Company
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner Inc.
Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Viacom
Wal-Mart
Warner Music Group
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
Xerox Corporation
Zippo Manufacturing Company
60 Plus Association
Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP)
American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Americans for Tax Reform
Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies
Association of Talent Agents (ATA)
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Beachbody, LLC
BMG Chrysalis
Capitol Records Nashville
Christian Music Trade Association
Church Music Publishers’ Association
Coalition Against Online Video Piracy (CAOVP)
Comcast/NBCUniversal
Concerned Women for America (CWA)
Congressional Fire Services Institute
Copyright Alliance
Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB)
Council of State Governments
Country Music Association
Country Music Television
Covington & Burling LLP
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
Creative America
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
First time I saw the list I was most confused by all the cosmetics companies. Is there a lot of knockoff eyeliner sold online?
My birthday present to myself will be cancelling Comcast. They used to have a monopoly over my address, but I found out that RCN is now available…
Good question.
and Happy Birthday!
I would love to get RCN, but last time I checked, they weren’t providing service in my area…
Good question. I guess they all do online marketing and want to make sure their fake-viral videos and crap like that are protected. They also probably all do product placement in movies and TV. But those are just guesses.
Oh, that is a very good set of guesses. I didn’t even think of that…
I don’t know how they would lose money if the movie their product was placed in, was bootlegged or pirated, as they already paid to be in that movie to begin with…
When TV programs are pirated the commercials are usually cut, hence their commercial does not get as much airtime. I imagine this is an even bigger deal when an entire episode is sponsored by a company.
Counterfeit goods are a significant problem for large clothing brands. I could imagine that the clothing brands are trading support for any anti-counterfeit regulation is exchange for their support against online piracy. Since they view it as a protection of copyrights, they probably feel like they are in the same boat.
It is also important to note that many of these companies probably have multi-million dollar deals between them, people on each other’s boards, as well as, in some situations, common parent holding companies.