On initial glance H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act, introduced in the House this week, is twice was long as its Senate counterpart the PROTECT IP Act and proposes broad, sweeping Internet regulation. Cybersecurity issues: If enacted, this bill would drive internet traffic and domain name routing that we now control outside of the US, compromising…
There may not be extensive overlap between the beliefs and values of members of the Tea Party and the tech sector, but the threat of excessive government regulation and control over the Internet, posed by the PROTECT IP Act, now appears to have united them on at least this front. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently sent out…
CCIA joined the Consumer Electronics Association and NetCoalition today in a letter to House Judiciary committee chairmen to caution them on the real danger to the Internet if they pass S. 968, the so-called PROTECT IP Act. The letter requests a meeting to discuss changes to the bill. While venture capitalists, law professors and Internet engineers have…
Two current stories are worth noting on the copyright term extension front. First, several weeks ago, the EU passed a law that extended the copyright term for sound recordings by 20 years. While this extension was supported by record companies and collection agencies, it was not favored by artists, even though the Council of the European…
The tech industry helped launch the push for patent reform six years ago, but it was not among those cheering the passage of the bill yesterday. Those applauding the loudest were those who originally fought patent reform, and instead managed to get the bill so watered down that it no longer promised real reforms. The…
The tech industry helped launch the push for patent reform six years ago, but it was not among those cheering the passage of the bill yesterday. Those applauding the loudest were those who originally fought patent reform, and instead managed to get the bill so watered down that it no longer promised real reforms. The…
When CCIA recently released the 2011 iteration of Fair Use in the U.S. Economy, it was the second update of that report – the first having been released four years ago, as is chronicled on CCIA’s fair use page. The purpose of the report is to quantifiably demonstrate the U.S. economic contribution of industries relying on fair…
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…
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…
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