List of organizations that support the Stop Online Piracy Act

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has 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. 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 less 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."
Supporting Organizations
Organizations that support the Stop Online Piracy Act include:<ref name=smithlist />
* 60 Plus 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)
* Beachbody, LLC
* BMI
* BMG Chrysalis
* 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/NBC Universal
* 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
* EMI Christian Music Group
* EMI Music Publishing
* Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
* ESPN
* Estée Lauder Companies
* Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)
* Gospel Music Association
* Graphic Artists Guild
* Hachette Book Group
* HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Inc.
* Hyperion Books
* Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA)
* 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’Oreal
* 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 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
* 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)
* 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
* United States Chamber of Commerce
* 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
Note: 124 Organizations are listed.
Removed Organizations
Organizations that have had their names removed from the list of supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act include:
* Baker & Hostetler LLP
* Covington & Burling LLP
* Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
* Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
* Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
* Go Daddy
* 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
* White & Case LLP
Note: 23 Organizations are listed.
(based on comparison between original 142 count list and current list as of December 29, 2011)

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