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Patent Troll Week in DC, NYC

The toll of patent trolls is a focus this week with the PTO hosting a software patent roundtable in New York and CCIA hosting a panel discussion on patent trolls on Capitol Hill Thursday.

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Posted By Sean Cody | 2/25/2013 10:42:17 AM
 
CCIA Filed Comments with the Copyright Office on Orphan Works
CCIA filed comments with the Copyright Office Feb. 4th in response to their notice of inquiry on orphan works.  These comments identify statutory damages reform as a possible vehicle for mitigating the orphan works problem, pointing to recommendations made in the Association’s  2012 comments to the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.
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Posted By Ali Sternburg | 2/6/2013 4:11:43 PM
 
European Copyright Policy Developments
The debate on copyright in Europe has recently picked up speed. Commissioner Barnier, responsible for the copyright portfolio, has just recently kicked off the CEPS ‘Digital Forum Task Force on Copyright in the EU Digital Single Market’ that is supposed to develop a dialogue among all stakeholders on the future of copyright. CCIA will participate in the task force. In addition, President Barroso initiated a ‘copyright orientation debate’ among the college of Commissioners at beginning of this month to ease some of the divisions that have built up about the future of copyright within the Commission.  
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Posted By Jakob Kucharczyk | 12/12/2012 11:52:59 AM
 
CCIA Files Amicus Brief in Software Patent Eligibility Case

CCIA filed a brief Friday before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court in support of the plaintiff CLS Bank. In the amicus filing, CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd., CCIA argued that the panel’s presumption of patent eligibility is unwarranted.

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Posted By Heather Greenfield | 12/11/2012 11:06:12 AM
 
House Judiciary Hearing Yesterday on the Internet Radio Fairness Act
Yesterday, the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing entitled: "Music Licensing Part One: Legislation in the 112th Congress."  There was so much interest in this hearing that not everyone could get into the room (myself included), and the hearing went for more than two hours and had to be cut off while Congressmen still had unanswered questions.  
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Posted By Ali Sternburg | 11/29/2012 1:40:31 PM
 
Supreme Court Hears Key Owners' Rights Case
Yesterday, despite the hurricane, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in several cases, including Kirtsaeng v. Wiley.  I wrote a post last week for DisCo where I explained some of the policy implications of an adverse ruling on the first-sale doctrine, and why first-sale is essential for online commerce.  CCIA has been following this issue, and filed an amicus brief [PDF], and joined as a founding member of the newly-created Owners’ Rights Initiative (ORI).  Below is an excerpt from my post, highlighting and expounding on a key excerpt from the dissent in the Second Circuit:
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Posted By Ali Sternburg | 10/30/2012 3:42:35 PM
 
The German Proposal on a New Leistungsschutzrecht – Endangering Press Diversity and the Digital Economy

Shortly before the next elections in Germany which will take place exactly a year from now, the German government set into motion the adoption of a new copyright law that, if it passed parliament, would be unique in the world. Unique, however, in every negative sense of the word. 

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Posted By Jakob Kucharczyk | 9/14/2012 9:44:43 AM
 
 
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