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CCIA Calls Copyright Ruling A Victory For Innovators
September 19, 2013
Washington – Those who like to skip TV commercials and those making the devices that help them do it won a key court victory Wednesday. A New York southern District Judge dismissed an argument by AB...
CCIA’s Response To MPAA Study Today
September 19, 2013
The MPAA released a study today which claims that search engines "influenced" about 19 percent of visits to websites that predominately offer copyright infringing content. The report may mislead, ho...
CCIA's Response To MPAA Study Today
September 19, 2013
The MPAA released a study today which claims that search engines "influenced" about 19 percent of visits to websites that predominately offer copyright infringing content. The report may mislead, ho...
Coalition Seeking Privacy Reforms Relaunches Site Today
September 19, 2013
Today will see the relaunch of VanishingRights.com, a site that calls on Congress to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act - also known as ECPA. CCIA has been engaged in the fight to refo...
CCIA Welcomes Court Decision Upholding Song Licenses for Internet Radio
September 18, 2013
Washington – A U.S. District Court has ruled that a group representing songwriters and music publishers cannot limit the number of songs it licenses to the Internet’s largest radio service. The ra...
House Judiciary Committee Releases Internet Taxation Principles
September 18, 2013
Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) today welcomed the release of the House Judiciary Committee’s basic principles on Internet sales taxation.
Chairman ...
Make Internet Tax Moratorium Permanent
September 13, 2013
Yesterday, a bipartisan group of House members introduced H.R. 3086, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act. The bill would make permanent the moratorium on new state and local Internet access taxe...
Open Internet Rule Is About Broadband Internet Access in the US
September 11, 2013
The FCC Open Internet rule is about consumer and end user access to everything Americans want on the Internet. It is not about big edge providers’ access to any particular end users. Verizon h...
CCIA Welcomes European Commission’s Plan For Telecom Market Reforms
September 11, 2013
Brussels – The European Commission has proposed its long-awaited telecommunications reforms Wednesday evening, designed to bring simpler rules for telecom companies offering service throughout Europ...
CCIA Releases Research Paper on Online Liability and Trade
September 9, 2013
As the economy shows increasing signs of recovery and growth, many Internet companies see overseas markets as the next stage of that growth. But to fully realize that growth for the technology industr...
New Research Shows High Bandwidth Online Services Create Demand for Faster, More Expensive, Broadband
September 5, 2013
Brussels - The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), the international organisation for the Internet industries, is today releasing two studies about the 21st century consumer and b...