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CCIA Asks Supreme Court to Help #fixpatents in Wild Tangent Case

CCIA filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant cert in the WildTangent case. This case could help fix patents and clarify some of the confusion that has come out of recent decisions...

CCIA Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Wild Tangent Patent Case

Washington – The Supreme Court may take up a case that many are hoping could resolve a division within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on patent eligibility of software. About half...

CCIA Calls Copyright Ruling A Victory For Innovators

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...
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CCIA’s Response To MPAA Study Today

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...
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CCIA's Response To MPAA Study Today

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...
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Coalition Seeking Privacy Reforms Relaunches Site Today

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

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

Washington – The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) today welcomed the release of the House Judiciary Committee’s basic principles on Internet sales taxation. Chairman ...
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Make Internet Tax Moratorium Permanent

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...