Visualisations have been drafted in to support the attempts by prominent US entrepreneurs to scuttle the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). An open letter was signed by a who's who of Internet pioneers including Marc Andreessen (Netscape), Sergey Brin (Google), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), David Filo and Jerry Yang (Yahoo!) and Craig Newmark, (craigslist).

The laws of copyright and intellectual property need to be updated for the digital age, according to Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth written by Professor Ian Hargreaves.