Washington – House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and a bipartisan group of co-sponsors have introduced patent reform legislation aimed at curbing abusive patent-related lawsuits. Economists have said lawsuits by companies whose main product is lawsuits cost the economy $29 billion a year, and patent trolls have expanded their targets in recent years beyond the tech industry to…
DetailsBrussels – The Computer & Communications Industry Association has compiled a series of studies and case studies that seek to provide a broader answer to the increasingly asked questions of who reaps the economic benefits of the Internet. While an often cited McKinsey economic study noted that 75 percent of the Internet’s benefits went to…
DetailsAs the FCC approaches another leadership transition, CCIA reiterates its commitment to the Obama Administration’s original objectives for enlightened telecommunications policy in the digital age. As the President took office in January of 2009, CCIA wrote: “Never before has there been a national leader who better understood the importance of free speech and the power…
DetailsGeneva – A need for better efficiency in global standards has led five global organizations to launch an initiative supporting the modern paradigm for global open standards. With their initiative “Open-Stand.org,” groups including founders IEEE, Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have established a jointly developed set…
DetailsCCIA and our IDEA initiative are attending the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Bali, Indonesia next week (I’m attending for both) and we’re involved in several of the events taking place there as either the organiser, panellist or moderator. The IGF is a key Internet policy meeting, attracting up to 3,000 representatives from government, civil…
DetailsThe WTO public forum is perhaps the most visible result of the WTO’s revised public relations strategy following its tumultuous 1999 Ministerial Conference in Seattle. In recent years, it has become a major event in the international trade agenda as it transformed from a somewhat academic public outreach exercise to a well-attended ‘marketplace of ideas’ where industry, civil society and Governments discuss trade challenges in an open and constructive environment.
DetailsLate last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President’s Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. This group was formed by the President in August and tasked with examining our current surveillance practices and reporting on how they can be improved to…
DetailsLate last week, CCIA submitted a set of comments to the President’s Review Group on Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies in response to their call for feedback on September 4th. This group was formed by the President in August and tasked with examining our current surveillance practices and reporting on how they can be improved to…
DetailsThe Computer & Communications Industry Association joined six dozen companies and associations in a joint letter to House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders today to ask to move legislation to bring greater transparency to government surveillance programs. The letter praises provisions of both S. 1452, the Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013, and H.R. 3035, the Surveillance Order Reporting…
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