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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...
Senators Reintroduce Internet Censorship Bill Under New Name
May 12, 2011
Senators Leahy, Hatch and Grassley are reintroducing legislation, which will impose a mandate on additional industries to enforce copyright laws. Instead of COICA, the new acronym appears to sound les...
Privacy Circus This Week On Capitol Hill
May 11, 2011
Two new pieces of privacy legislation and a hearing are keeping Congress busy this week, while the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office just released a new set of rules for the use of co...
Senate Antitrust Committee Begins Probing AT&T Merger Deal
May 11, 2011
After putting AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Cellular South CEOs under oath, Senators on the Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust asked tough questions about what the deal would really mean for the pri...
Senate Antitrust Committee Begins Probing AT&T Merger Deal
May 11, 2011
After putting AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Cellular South CEOs under oath, Senators on the Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust asked tough questions about what the deal would really mean for the pri...