Seven or eight years ago, the most active companies in the first Open Internet Coalition were Amazon, eBay, Google and Skype. Twitter was barely a twinkle and I don’t know how I really lived without Pandora. Courts threw out both consensus FCC principles around Internet access rights and its 2010 open Internet rules. But failure…
DetailsWashington — The White House has released a comprehensive consumer privacy legislative proposal today. The discussion draft, originally announced in the President’s State of the Union address last month, is based on the Administration’s 2012 Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. The goal is to require baseline privacy protections for consumers across industries and to allow…
DetailsWashington – The Supreme Court has a case that could give patent trolls even more tools and make a common defense — a good faith belief of non-infringement — irrelevant. The Computer & Communications Industry Association has filed a friend of the court brief in the Commil v. Cisco case, explaining that granting additional power…
DetailsWashington – Standing up to heavy lobbying by large Internet access providers, the FCC voted today to protect Internet access for households and small businesses. The FCC was created by Congress as an independent agency to ensure all Americans’ access to both wired and wireless communications services and this bold action finally employs its fundamental…
DetailsWe are in the midst of a major paradigm shift in which our societies have become ever more digitized. In consequence, we can no longer consider “digital” a separate phenomenon that must be addressed differently by policy-makers. Instead, we must embrace digital to obtain all benefits from this historic Internet opportunity. Have you ever asked…
DetailsWashington – CCIA signed onto a multi-association letter encouraging Congress to pass updated Trade Promotion Authority legislation that provides guidance to our trade negotiators on how to align U.S. trade priorities with the realities of the 21st century global commerce. The following statement can be attributed to Ed Black, President and CEO of CCIA: “Twenty-first…
DetailsCCIA together with four other industry trade associations issued an open statement Thursday on MEP Julia Reda’s draft report on the implementation of the Copyright Directive. Reda’s draft report is a good first step towards putting the debate around copyright reform on the right track. The report identifies some major shortcomings of Europe’s current copyright framework…
DetailsBrussels/Strasbourg — As the Internet faces threats from some regimes, which seek curb online freedoms and more governmental control, the European Parliament has today issued an important resolution in support of the open Internet, online rights, and an extension of the Internet Governance Forum’s mandate. A broad coalition of civil society and the Internet industry in Europe…
DetailsWashington — The Copyright Office has issued a report on music licensing today, taking a commendable position on the need for transparency in the extremely complicated music marketplace, but also recommending the repeal of statutory provisions that have enabled the modern digital music revolution. The Computer & Communications Industry Association filed comments with the Copyright…
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