Brookings Panel on “Fostering Internet Competition “The Brookings Institute held a panel discussionWednesday on “Fostering Internet Competition” to highlight a new Brookings paper “How to Maintain a Competitive Internet.” Darrell West, who moderated the discussion, wrote that by 2016 analysts estimate the digital economy will amount to $4.2 trillion among G-20 nations – nearly double the…
Brookings Panel on “Fostering Internet Competition “The Brookings Institute held a panel discussionWednesday on “Fostering Internet Competition” to highlight a new Brookings paper “How to Maintain a Competitive Internet.” Darrell West, who moderated the discussion, wrote that by 2016 analysts estimate the digital economy will amount to $4.2 trillion among G-20 nations – nearly double the…
CCIA joined NetCoalition in filing comments at the request of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator today. CCIA asked that the Administration’s IP be aligned to better reflect our diplomatic and trade goals, though it praised the USTR for its attempts so far to better balance copyright in the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership. CCIA said that there has been…
Two members of Congress have introduced legislation to help innovators combat patent trolls. HR 6245 co-authored by Congressmen Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., and Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, would allow tech companies to recover litigation costs for nuisance lawsuits where the plaintiff made legal claims that had little chance of succeeding. The legislation comes just after a Boston…
Napa, Ca. — Tech companies and start ups heard more about a push by some countries to gain more international control over the Internet. CCIA President & CEO Ed Black joined fellow panelists Robert Pepper of Cisco and Sally Shipman Wentworth of the Internet Society to discuss international Internet governance at the Tech Policy Summit Thursday. The…
Start ups and Silicon Valley companies from Personal to Spokeo discussed issues from innovation and competitiveness to cybersecurity and privacy at the Tech Policy Summit in Napa Wednesday. Nnena Ukuku, co-founder and CEO of Black Founders StartUp Ventures, said it was unfortunate that provisions that would have benefited start up companies were removed from the…
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…
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. Ronald Cass, Dean Emeritus of Boston University Law School, offered history…
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. Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen said, however, said something to be cautious of is enacting…