Washington – As privacy advocates mark Data Privacy Day Monday, the Computer & Communications Industry Association is calling on Congress to update the nation’s 27 year old laws governing when and how the government can obtain peoples email and other online documents. In 1986 Congress wrote the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that attempted to address…
DetailsBrussels – The Computer & Communication Industry Association has released the latest economic study it commissioned, “The Sky is Rising,” just ahead of this year’s MIDEM music business conference in France. The latest study from Floor 64, co-authored by Mike Masnick and Michael Ho, is a follow up that broadens last year’s U.S.-focused analysis of…
DetailsLast year, CCIA consistently opposed efforts to pass legislation that would force online retailers to collect sales and use taxes regardless of physical presence. Last month, we opposed an attempt in the lame duck session to attach such a bill to the defense authorization bill. In light of such back door efforts, as well as…
DetailsAfter last year’s release of the study ‘The Sky is Rising‘ looking at the global, economic state of the entertainment industry, the Computer & Communication Industry Association (CCIA) is convening a media briefing Thursday 15:00 CET/ 9am EST to present the main findings of our new, European study focusing on the entertainment businesses in France,…
DetailsAfter last year’s release of the study ‘The Sky is Rising‘ looking at the global, economic state of the entertainment industry, the Computer & Communication Industry Association (CCIA) is convening a media briefing Thursday 15:00 CET/ 9am EST to present the main findings of our new, European study focusing on the entertainment businesses in France,…
DetailsComputer & Communications Industry Association Vice President Cathy Sloan will be part of a telecommunications panel discussion at 11:30am at the State of the Net conference sponsored by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee at the Capitol Hyatt today. The panelists including author Larry Downes, Corie Wright of Netflix and University of Pennsylvania law school…
DetailsMany in Washington and around the country are celebrating a key battle in the war against Internet freedom today – the one year anniversary of the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA. The Computer & Communications Industry Association had been an early opponent of the bill and its two previous incarnations. We…
DetailsThe FCC’s Incentive Auctions rulemaking docket is titled: “Expanding Economic and Innovation Opportunities of Spectrum…” With an increasing majority of the American TV audience choosing to consume their video programming via wired or wireless broadband, rather than over the air broadcast signals, new spectrum to be voluntarily relinquished by TV broadcasters will become available to…
DetailsAs the first anniversary of the January 18, 2012 SOPA blackouts approaches, and with a new session of Congress starting, there has been an increase in the usual pieces looking at the impact of the monumental anti-SOPA effort on future policymaking regarding the Internet and copyright. Some of the recent articles include a piece in The Hill, another in…
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