passed<\/a> the legislation within ten days of taking office. Perhaps this had something to do with another leaked letter, from the American Chamber of Commerce in Spain, warning of potential flight of foreign investment from Spain if action wasn’t taken to pass the intellectual property law quickly. At least Sinde appears to require review by a commission to investigate copyright claims before a case is brought before a judge, unlike its SOPA counterpart. Still, its disturbing that our government feels the need to reach out internationally to mold legislation we haven’t even agreed on in our own country yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to Wikileaks’s distribution of diplomatic cables between the United States and Spain, we now know that the U.S. government heavily influenced the drafting of Spain’s copyright legislation. Now, a leaked letter, dated December 12, 2011, indicates the U.S. ambassador’s anger towards the Spanish Prime Minister’s office for failing to pass the Sinde Law, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,1920],"tags":[1715,1718,1311,1602,2004,2005,1946,1987,1736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}