Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property (DEFEND IP) Act of 2026

This bill would let copyright owners or exclusive licensees ask a federal district court to label a foreign website as a "foreign digital piracy site" if it likely violates their copyrights and is mainly used for that purpose. After such a designation, the copyright owner could ask the court to order large internet providers and large public DNS providers to take reasonable steps to stop U.S. users from reaching the site. Website operators and service providers would have 20 days to contest, and orders would generally last one year, with possible one-year extensions. Service providers could ask the court to make the copyright owner pay certain compliance costs, would be shielded from liability for good-faith actions, and court orders would be posted on the Copyright Office website.

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• Zoe Lofgren Democrat sponsor
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