List of organizations with official stances on SOPA and PIPA

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) found broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Macmillan Publishers, Viacom, and various other companies and unions in the cable, movie, and music industries.

On December 22, 2011, Lamar Smith, the bill's sponsor, released a list of 142 organizations that support SOPA on the House Judiciary Committee's website.Smith, Lamar United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee List of Supporters H.R. 3661, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" Other lists have been released by the organizations themselves.

Following the list's original release, it was updated multiple times. As of the morning of December 29, 2011, the official list had 18 fewer supporters, including only 124 of the original 142 supporters. The growing publicity of this list on websites such as Reddit resulted in what might be referred to as a public relations disaster for some of the supporters listed. Arguably the first and most prominent case regarded GoDaddy.com, a popular internet domain registrar and web hosting company which openly supported SOPA. GoDaddy sustained significant losses, losing over 72,000 domains in less than one week, as a result of a proposed boycott of their services, pending it renounce its support of SOPA. GoDaddy has since announced that it "no longer supports SOPA legislation," then amended that statement to "GoDaddy OPPOSES SOPA."

Organizations supporting SOPA

Organizations that support the Stop Online Piracy Act include:

60 Plus Association Actors' Equity Association ABC Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) American Bankers Association (ABA) 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) Best Host News (BHN) BMI BMG Rights Management Building and Construction Trades Department Capitol Records Nashville CBS Cengage Learning 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 Copyhype Copyright Alliance Coty, Inc. Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) Council of State Governments Country Music Association Country Music Television Creative America Deluxe Digital Studios Directors Guild of America (DGA) Disney Publishing Worldwide, Inc. Elsevier Entertainment Consumers Association ESPN Estée Lauder Companies Foundation for Job Creation Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Gospel Music Association Hachette Book Group HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Inc. Hyperion Books Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC) International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) International Trademark Association (INTA) International Union of Police Associations L'Oréal Lost Highway Records Macmillan Major County Sheriffs Major League Baseball Majority City Chiefs Marvel Entertainment, LLC MasterCard Worldwide MCA Records McGraw-Hill Education Mercury Nashville Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Minority Media & Telecom Council (MMTC) Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Moving Picture Technicians MPA – The Association of Magazine Media National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) National Association of Prosecutor Coordinators National Association of State Chief Information Officers National Basketball Association (NBA) National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) National Center for Victims of Crime National Criminal Justice Association National District Attorneys Association National Domestic Preparedness Coalition National Football League (NFL) National Governors Association, Economic Development and Commerce Committee National League of Cities National Narcotics Officers' Associations' Coalition National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) National Songwriters Association National Troopers Coalition News Corporation Pearson Education Penguin Group (USA), Inc. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Pfizer, Inc. Provident Music Group Random House Raulet Property Partners Republic Nashville Revlon Scholastic, Inc. Screen Actors Guild (SAG) SESAC Showdog Universal Music Sony/ATV Music Publishing Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Nashville State International Development Organization (SIDO) The National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) Perseus Books Group United States Conference of Mayors Tiffany & Co. Time Warner True Religion Brand Jeans UMG Publishing Group Nashville Uncyclopedia (parodying Wikipedia) United States Chamber of Commerce United States Conference of Catholic Bishops United States Olympic Committee United States Tennis Association Universal Music Universal Music Publishing Group Viacom Visa Inc. W.W. Norton & Company Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, L.P. Warner Music Group Warner Music Nashville Wolters Kluwer Health Word Entertainment Zuffa, LLC Zumba Fitness, LLC

Note: 125 Organizations are listed.

Removed supporting organizations

Organizations that have had their names removed from the list of supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act include:

Apple Inc. Baker & Hostetler LLP Beachbody, LLC Covington & Burling LLP Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP EMI Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Go Daddy Graphic Artists Guild Irell & Manella LLP Jenner & Block LLP Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Kendall Brill & Klieger LLP Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP Lathrop & Gage LLP Loeb & Loeb LLP Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Phillips Nizer, LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Note: 27 organizations are listed. (based on comparison between original 142 count list and current list as of December 29, 2011).

Organizations opposing SOPA

38 Studios 4chan 7iber.com Amazon.com American Association of Law Libraries American Civil Liberties Union American Library Association Americans for Job Security American Society of News Editors Anonymous AOL Ars Technica Association of College and Research Libraries Association of Research Libraries Benetech BoardGameGeek BoingBoing Brookings Institution BuzzFeed Center for Democracy and Technology Cheezburger Network Cliche Games CloudFlare Competitive Enterprise Institute Computer & Communication Industry Association Consumer Electronics Association Consumer Federation of America Consumers Union cPanel Craigslist Creative Commons Creators' Freedom Project The Daily Californian Daily Kos The Daily WTF Demand Progress Democracy for America Democratic Underground Destructoid DeviantArt Diaspora Dinosaur Comics Disqus Domain.com Don't Censor the Net DreamHost DuckDuckGo eBay Educause Encyclopaedia Metallum Engine Advocacy Entertainment Consumers Association Electronic Frontier Foundation Embedly Epic Games ESET Etsy Facebook Fark Fight for the Future Flickr foursquare Freedom House Freepress.org Frozenbyte Funny or Die Future of Music Coalition The Ginever Alliance GigaOM Girls with Slingshots GitHub Gizmodo Good Magazine Good Old Games Google Greenpeace Grooveshark Hack a Day Hacker News Harvard Law School Heritage Action The Heritage Foundation HostGator Hover The Huffington Post The Hype Machine IAC identi.ca IGN Imgur Information Technology Industry Council Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice Internet Archive Internet Society Irregular Times Kaspersky Lab Kickstarter Know Your Meme Kornspace Lea-Linux Library Copyright Alliance LinkedIn Linode Los Angeles Times MAAWG Major League Gaming The Massachusetts Daily Collegian Massachusetts Institute of Technology Admissions McSweeney's Media Access Project Media Temple Megaupload Mercury Radio Arts MetaFilter Microsoft Middlebury College Minnesota Daily Miro Mojang MoveOn.org Mozilla Foundation NameCheap Name.com National Association of the Deaf NetCoalition.com New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative Newgrounds The New York Times Nival NVIDIA The Oatmeal The Obama Administration The Oklahoma Daily OpenDNS The Orange County Register Open Rights Group O'Reilly Media PayPal PerezHilton.com Petzel Pop17 Pornhub PPF (Open Congress) Pressthink.org The Pirate Bay Public Interest Registry Public Knowledge phpBB Questionable Content Quora Rackspace Rate Your Music The Raw Story Razer Red 5 Studios Red Hat Reddit Reporters Without Borders Riot Games Rock, Paper, Shotgun Runic Games San Jose Mercury News SaveHosting.org Scribd Sega ServInt Silicon Knights SiteGround A Small Orange A Softer World Something Positive SongMeanings SparkFun Electronics Special Libraries Association Surviving the World The Spectrum Square Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow StopBadware Syracuse University School of Information Studies Tea Party Patriots TechAmerica TechCrunch Techdirt TechFreedom Texts From Last Night Tor TorrentFreak Trion Worlds Tucows Tumblr Turntable.fm Twitpic Twitter The Verge/Vox Media UrbanDictionary U.S. PIRG The Federation of State PIRGs United States Student Association Urbanspoon Vimeo WebOS Internals Wikia Wikimedia Foundation Wired WordPress World Wide Web Virtual Library Writers Guild of America, West xda-developers XVideos Yahoo! Y Combinator Zynga

Note: 224 Organizations are listed.

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List of organizations with official stances on SOPA and PIPA

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