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CCIA was founded in 1972 to promote open markets, open systems, and open networks in the computer and telecommunications industry. Today, the association continues to evangelize these principles across these increasingly diverse and economically important sectors of the global economy.

CCIA Releases EU Study Calculating Economic Value of Copyright Exceptions

News & Events, White Papers & ReportsJuly 12, 2010

Brussels – Industries that rely on exceptions and limitations that balance copyright laws are growing 3 percent faster than the rest of the EU economy, according to a new study released by the Computer & Communications Industry Association. The study by SEO Economic Research took a conservative approach in the first attempt to quantify the…

Data Available On Unsecured Wireless Networks and To IAPs Raise Privacy Issues

News & EventsJuly 8, 2010

Washington – A group called Consumer Watchdog, which has almost exclusively focused on regularly criticizing Google, recently undertook an effort to gather and release personal data it collected outside members of Congress’ homes over unsecured wireless networks. In their zeal to point out that this was something Google merely could have done, they have done…

CCIA Opposes Bill To Expand Internet Tax Collection

News & EventsJuly 7, 2010

Just before the Independence Day weekend, a bill was introduced in the House that would increase the tax collection burden for thousands of small, independent businesses using the Internet to sell their products. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has serious concerns about H.R. 5660, the Main Street Fairness Act sponsored by Rep. William Delahunt,…

ACTA Threatens Internet Freedom, U.S. Business Overseas

News & EventsJuly 2, 2010

As the nation prepares to celebrate its independence this weekend, an international agreement under negotiation in Switzerland this past week threatens to limit the protection of and extension of our freedoms to the Internet world. Americans and Internet users around the world are facing mounting efforts by governments to expand their control, restrict new models…

Supreme Court Compounds Uncertainty For Business Method Patents

News & EventsJune 28, 2010

The Supreme Court has issued a long awaited decision that could impact whether business methods can be patented. The Supreme Court denied a patent for a risk management method in Bilski v. Kappos, while still allowing some business methods to be patented. The justices reduced the strength of the lower court rejection by stating that…

DMCA Safe Harbor Ruling Strikes A Balance

News & EventsJune 23, 2010

Washington – Viacom v. YouTube copyright case. This decision shows that the DMCA safe harbors are working, and that Congress struck the proper balance, by providing robust protection for creators who think their copyrights are infringed, while still allowing platforms for expression to flourish online.The following statement can be attributed to Computer & Communications Industry…

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