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PROTECT IP Act Not "Noncontroversial"
CCIA is running a series of ads this week -- including this full page ad that just happened to run in The Hill's annual "beautiful people" edition today.

We're also running this electronic ad in Politico all week with info from the various letters to Congress from those opposing it:

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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 7/27/2011 2:30:15 PM
 
CCIA Asks DC Circuit to Tell FCC to Rule on Monopoly Pricing for Internet Access

In January 2005, the FCC opened a rulemaking docket to the FCC’s regulation of the “special access” rates that businesses and millions of customers pay to the largest telephone companies for broadband connections to the Internet.  Despite overwhelming evidence of wildly excessive pricing (profit margins for companies that control high-capacity broadband lines are over 100%), the FCC has failed to take action.  

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Posted By Phillip Berenbroick | 7/25/2011 11:57:21 AM
 
CCIA Releases Cloud Computing Paper on Capitol Hill
As more businesses and governments move their IT operations to the cloud, the Computer & Communications Industry Association released 36 recommendations Tuesday as part of a white paper on how policymakers can enable cloud computing.
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Posted By Staff | 7/22/2011 10:50:57 AM
 
Members of Congress, EU Parliament Discuss Privacy, IP
CCIA Executive Vice President Erika Mann and the former chair of the Congressional Internet Caucus Rick Boucher opened a roundtable discussion July 14 between members of Congress and the European Parliament on privacy and intellectual property as part of Transatlantic Week in Congress. Mann helped found the European Internet Foundation, the counterpart to the Congressional Internet Caucus, when she was a member of the European Parliament.
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Posted By Staff | 7/22/2011 10:46:48 AM
 
New Copyright Study Illustrates Economic Need For Balanced Policies
Congressman Jared Polis, D-Colo., welcomed the release of a new economic study on Capitol Hill July 11 saying industries that depend on exceptions to copyright law, like the tech sector and news media, are happy it has been published.
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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 7/21/2011 5:54:06 PM
 
 
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