“Fair Use in the U.S. Economy” For the latest data on the economic value of balanced copyright Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Washington, DC Event Materials Now Available Featuring remarks from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D – Calif.) House Judiciary Committee Speakers Include: Ed Black President & CEO, CCIA Thomas Rogers Principal, Capital Trade, Inc. Andrew Szamosszegi Principal,…
The Computer & Communications Industry filed comments today in the second round of responses to the FCC’s rulemaking to preserve access to an open Internet. Protecting access to the public Internet is even more urgent now given the recent appeals court ruling, which overturned the way the previous FCC sought to enforce net neutrality rules,…
The just-released details of the once secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement confirm fears that the agreement will unreasonably increase the legal exposure of U.S. technology and Internet businesses operating abroad, the Computer & Communications Industry Association said, after reviewing the declassified text. The document was made public today after governments involved bowed to intense public pressure…
Brussels – EU IT and telecom ministers called for open standards and interoperability in government IT procurement during what was supposed to be a meeting in Granada, Spain. The statement was part of a broader Granada Declaration, after the city where ministers were supposed to meet this week. The meeting went on via teleconference as…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association applauds the economic research agenda outlined Tuesday by Under Secretary for Intellectual Property David Kappos, the featured speaker at the annual conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. CCIA also applauds the appointment of Stuart Graham, a professor at Georgia Tech…
As the Obama administration considers its next Supreme Court nominee many groups discuss what diversity on the court means and why it is needed. In a letter to President Obama Wednesday, the Computer & Communications Industry Association pointed out the need for diversity in career backgrounds on the high court. CCIA said the court is likely…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association applauds Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s signing into law HB 1349, which will create a Virginia Free File program modeled after the federal Free File Alliance. The Alliance is a partnership between the IRS and the electronic tax software industry. The law announced today is a critical step forward in…
Despite protests from thousands of Internet users, the British House of Commons has passed its Digital Economy Bill. Once the bill passes the House of Lords, it allows the government to block websites over copyright issues, requires ISPs to pass along peer to peer file sharing notices to Internet users from copyright holders and opens…
A decision today in Italy to hold three Google executives criminally responsible for the content of on-line video sets an usual precedent that challenges freedom on the Internet and even access. Even though the judge gave the executives a suspended sentence in the privacy violation case, he ruled the executives should be held criminally responsible…
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