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CCIA Files Comments On Spectrum For Mobile Broadband

Last week CCIA filed Comments in the FCC’s 2 GHz rulemaking proceeding.  The Commission’s proposed rules would grant mobile satellite spectrum (MSS) licensees flexibility to use their licensed spectrum to deploy mobile voice and broadband services – increasing the amount of spectrum available for these services.

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Posted By Phillip Berenbroick | 5/25/2012 12:50:02 PM
 
Senators Introduce Startup Act 2.0

Four Senators have introduced bipartisan legislation this week designed to improve the environment for startup businesses in the U.S.  The Startup Act 2.0 would create an entrepreneur’s visa for legal immigrants to remain in the US and start up a business as long as they hire a certain number of American workers.  The bill would also create a new STEM visa that would provide green cards for foreign students who earn graduate degrees from American universities in science, technology, engineering or math – rather than sending them home to compete against us.  In addition, this legislation would create tax incentives for investment in startup companies and a new tax credit for research and development by those companies.  Further the bill would accelerate the commercialization of taxpayer funded research.

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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 5/24/2012 12:31:04 PM
 
Panelists Discuss Competition In Search At GMU
Academics studying everything from economics to competition among search engines and social media offered their theories on the marketplace as well as grounds for antitrust authority by regulators at George Mason University law school's second annual conference on Competition, Search and Social Media Wednesday.
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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 5/17/2012 3:54:21 PM
 
Trend Towards Copyright Reform For The Benefit Of Innovation Continues in Europe

As Europe debates the balance of intellectual property rights in the wake of ACTA, Ireland is taking comments through the end of this month on a paper it published on copyright and innovation

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Posted By Jakob Kucharczyk | 5/11/2012 11:35:32 AM
 
FTC Testifies On Privacy, Competition At Senate Commerce Hearing


Privacy as a competition issue was a focus at the Senate Commerce Committee’s hearing on online privacy Thursday.

 

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said having privacy rules could help provide a level playing field between companies that have privacy policies and those who don’t.

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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 5/10/2012 1:08:17 PM
 
Plan to Expand Tax Collection for Online Businesses Discussed in Senate Finance Hearing

The Senate Finance Committee held an April 25th hearing on “Tax Reform: What It Means for State and Local Tax and Fiscal Policy.”  Within the broader theme of the hearing, there was a lively exchange on the issue of online sales tax collection that illustrated supporters’ misperceptions regarding the compliance burden for small online retailers.  

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Posted By Ken Kurokawa | 5/4/2012 12:06:55 PM
 
Copyright RFI on Crowd Sourcing Mass Digitization of Pre-1978 Copyrighted Works

According to FBO.gov (short for FedBizOpps.gov, which in turn naturally stands for Federal Business Opportunities), the U.S. Copyright Office has issued a request for information about digitizing pre-1978 works.  

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Posted By Ali Sternburg | 5/1/2012 9:26:45 PM
 
 
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