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 also had this in Politico with info from the various letters to Congress from those opposing it. The PROTECT IP Act (S. 968) endangers Internet security, sets dangerous…
Congressman Jared Polis, D-Colo., welcomed the release of a new economic study on Capitol Hill Thursday saying industries that depend on exceptions to copyright law, like the tech sector and news media, are happy it has been published. “Fair Use in the U.S. Economy,” commissioned by CCIA, updates economic data incorporating new numbers from the…
FCC officials are now wading through thousands of petitions to deny AT&T’s FCC Application to takeover T-Mobile. Unlike DOJ, complaints to the FCC are public, so it takes some bravery for companies that must do business with AT&T to complain. Iowa Wireless, a subsidiary of T-Mobile, is getting some attention for filing a petition asking the FCC…
FCC officials are now wading through thousands of petitions to deny AT&T’s FCC Application to takeover T-Mobile. Unlike DOJ, complaints to the FCC are public, so it takes some bravery for companies that must do business with AT&T to complain. Iowa Wireless, a subsidiary of T-Mobile, is getting some attention for filing a petition asking the FCC…
Consumer and business groups voiced their opposition to the AT&T merger proposal a day ahead of a hearing on Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, “The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?” will be webcast. CCIA President & CEO Ed Black said there has been tremendous innovation in the tech sector since…
Consumer and business groups voiced their opposition to the AT&T merger proposal a day ahead of a hearing on Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, “The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Is Humpty Dumpty Being Put Back Together Again?” will be webcast. CCIA President & CEO Ed Black said there has been tremendous innovation in the tech sector since…
Repertoire Group Slapped With Infringement Suit for Performing Cage’s 4’33” Plaintiff Says Musicians Played Minimalist Composer’s Silent Piece “Note for Note” Washington — John Cage broke new ground with his 1952 experimental piece 4’33”, featuring a musician sitting quietly and motionless at a piano for precisely four minutes and thirty three seconds. Now the famed…
Sprint, T-Mobile and associations representing rural wireless carriers are asking the FCC to put action on data roaming on its April agenda. In its National Broadband Plan released almost a year ago, the FCC indicated a need to issue rules on data roaming to make customers’ wireless service more reliable and interoperable while preserving consumer…
When it comes to innovation, people often think of a research lab as the setting for new inventions or perhaps more recently the college dorm room or garage. But a new study by scholars including noted technology innovation professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management Eric von Hippel finds that most innovation is happening on kitchen tables…
