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CCIA Files Petition With FCC Asking To Deny AT&T Merger
May 31, 2011
The Computer & Communications Industry Association, which has advocated for 39 years for competition policy that fosters innovation and allows the next start up and smaller competitors to have a c...
Senate Judiciary Committee Embraces French Proposal for Internet Regulation
May 26, 2011
Within 48 hours of French President Sarkozy proposing sweeping international regulation of the Internet at the eG-8 meeting, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill allowing the U.S. Depar...
House Committee Leaders Announce Opposition to AT&T Merger Deal
May 25, 2011
A day ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the AT&T merger proposal, the leading members of key House Committees told reporters they’re opposing the deal because it will mean less com...
House Committee Leaders Announce Opposition to AT&T Merger Deal
May 25, 2011
A day ahead of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the AT&T merger proposal, the leading members of key House Committees told reporters they’re opposing the deal because it will mean less com...
CCIA Supports Digital Goods Tax Fairness Act
May 24, 2011
On May 23, the House Judiciary Committee’s Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 1860, the Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act. The bill would estab...
Commission Publishes New IPR Strategy
May 24, 2011
The European Commission released a broad Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) strategy today, which defines outstanding initiatives in the areas of authors’ IPRs, trademarks, designs, and geographic...
Upcoming Event: Media Briefing of Antitrust Experts on AT&T – T-Mobile Takeover
May 20, 2011
The proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA’s wireless communications business by AT&T raises serious competition policy issues that require careful analysis by the Federal Communications Commission a...
Upcoming Event: Media Briefing of Antitrust Experts on AT&T – T-Mobile Takeover
May 20, 2011
The proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA’s wireless communications business by AT&T raises serious competition policy issues that require careful analysis by the Federal Communications Commission a...
Administration Releases Cybersecurity Legislative Recommendations
May 19, 2011
Top officials from the DOJ, Commerce, DHS and DOD briefed Senate committee staffers this week on the White House's long awaited cybersecurity legislative proposal unveiled last week.
The Obama Admi...
Leahy Introduces Online Privacy Legislation
May 17, 2011
Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy has introduced long awaited legislation to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that sets the ground rules for law enforcement to gather electronic informa...
Senators Reintroduce COICA Under New Name, Same Controversial Internet Censorship Directives
May 12, 2011
Today, the blogosphere has lit up with controversy as the Bill Formerly Known As COICA was reintroduced in the Senate, sporting a new coat of paint and a freshly minted backronym: “the PROTECTIP Ac...