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| 04.07.2025 | EU Rejects Apple, Meta, Google, and European Companies’ Request for AI Act Delay | Image: Ilja/Adobe Stock
The rollout of the EU AI Act will not be delayed, a European Commission spokesperson has confirmed. This comes after a group representing Apple, Google, and Meta, as well as several European companies, urged regulato... |
| 27.06.2025 | Creativity & Technological Evolution | This series of posts explores how we can rethink the intersection of AI, creativity, and policy. From examining outdated regulatory metaphors to questioning copyright norms and highlighting the risks of stifling innovation, each post addres... |
| 27.06.2025 | Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over its ‘egregious’ tax on technology firms | Trump later said he expects that Canada will remove the tax.
“Economically we have such power over Canada. We’d rather not use it,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It’s not going to work out well for Canada. They were foolish to do it.”
Whe... |
| 03.06.2025 | Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues | While siding with the industry groups’ claims that the law limits free speech, Walker allowed a provision of the Florida law to go into effect requiring platforms to shut down accounts for children under 16, if their parent or guardian requ... |
| 03.04.2025 | Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws | Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to... |
| 11.03.2025 | Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics | When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably weren’t expecting to get schooled on moral panics by a judge citing his own experi... |
| 14.02.2025 | Texas lands top 10 spot in new future of tech study | Texas is among the top 10 states making the biggest investments in digital innovation, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by web-hosting company Hostinger, puts Texas in eighth place among the states when it comes to these key m... |
| 13.02.2025 | AI Action Summit | Key Takeaways & Announcements | Widely thought to be a chance for the world’s governments and biggest tech players to come together and dissuade the encroaching fears around artificial intelligence, the AI Action Summit in Paris ended up taking on an entirely different fe... |
| 08.11.2024 | Fifth Circuit: You Have To Do A Ton Of Busywork To Show Texas’s Social Media Law Violates The First Amendment | If the government passes a law that infringes on the public’s free speech rights, how should one challenge the law?
As recent events have shown, the answer is more complex than many realized.
A few years ago, both Texas and Florida passed “... |
| 06.09.2024 | Judge Rejects Yet Another Attempt By Texas To Police Online Speech | Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the legislature’s willingness to pass laws that clearly violate the First Amendment rights of websites. In the last three years, this is now the third law directed at website moderation practices to b... |
| 02.08.2024 | Justice Alito Almost Messed Up The Internet; Then He Threw A Temper Tantrum | It turns out the internet was one Sam Alito petulant tantrum away from being a total disaster. In two key First Amendment cases, Alito was given the majority opinion to write. And, in both of them, his insistence on obliterating the old bou... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Messy Reality Behind Trying To Protect The Internet From Terrible Laws | The recent Supreme Court case, Moody v. NetChoice & CCIA, confronted a pivotal question: Do websites have the First Amendment right to curate content they present to their global audiences? While the opinion has been dissected by many, ... |
| 17.07.2024 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 398: Link Taxes Won’t Save Journalism | A few weeks ago, Mike was the moderator on a panel hosted by CCIA all about link taxes — the various problematic efforts around the world to force internet companies to pay media outlets for sending them traffic. The panel featured Public K... |
| 09.07.2024 | Disney Cites Supreme Court’s NetChoice Decision In Fighting Gina Carano’s SLAPP Suit | Remember that SLAPP suit, financed by Elon Musk, that actor Gina Carano filed against Disney after they chose not to renew her contract for the Mandalorian? That’s the one where Carano seems to be insisting that failing to renew her contrac... |
| 02.07.2024 | Justice Alito’s Views On Social Media And The First Amendment Seem To Shift Depending On Who He Wants To Win | The Supreme Court’s opinions in the NetChoice/CCIA cases have been leading to some bizarre interpretations, as many people try to read into it things they wanted to see but just aren’t there. Cathy already covered some of the oddities of Ju... |
| 06.03.2024 | Deadline for EU DMA Compliance Reports Arrives for ‘Gatekeeper’ Orgs | March 7 marks the day that six major tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft — must provide compliance reports for the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, which has been in effect since May 2023. Here is ho... |
| 22.01.2024 | The Sky Is Rising 2024 Edition: Rather Than Destroying Culture, The Internet Has Saved The Content Industries | Read the latest edition of The Sky Is Rising at The Copia Institute » |
| 14.12.2023 | Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify as U.S. Lawmakers Get Fmovies Walkthrough | For a long time, pirate site blocking was considered a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid.
This stance was a remnant of the SOPA defeat, which drove copyright holders to focus on blocking efforts in other countries instead, and ... |
| 10.11.2023 | EU to protect elections against foreign saboteurs and Big Tech | European lawmakers have agreed plans to ban political advertisements targeting specific ethnic and religious communities, and to block ads funded by foreign lobbyists in the run up to an election, in an effort to protect EU elections from f... |
| 14.07.2023 | Latest suspected China hack puts Microsoft on D.C. hot seat | Anxiety over Microsoft's cybersecurity strategies is growing in Washington this week as details continue to emerge about the extent of a suspected Chinese espionage campaign.
Driving the news: Late Tuesday evening, Microsoft disclosed that ... |
| 01.06.2023 | Two Visions of Digital Sovereignty | If bipartisan agreement in the United States is rare, in at least one area, it is increasingly clear: “economic security is national security.” As global events have pushed Europe and the United States closer together, the convergence of th... |
| 29.03.2023 | Ukraine, 7 Other European Countries Say Tech Firms Should Help Stop Wartime Disinformation | John Lopez, Tech Times 29 March 2023, 01:03 pm
Eight countries in central and eastern Europe have joined forces to fight disinformation campaigns that try to make peace and democracy less stable, Reuters reports.
In an open letter signed by... |
| 30.12.2022 | Big Tech giving European consumers what they deny Americans | “Tech companies have built a perfect record so far in blocking major legislation in Congress,” The Wall Street Journal observed as the final effort to pass tech-related regulation failed in the closing days of the 117th Congress. However, t... |
| 20.12.2022 | Горшочек, не вари — не пора ли прекратить прокладывать оптоволоконные сети | Экспертов беспокоит, что на мировом рынке телекоммуникаций и оптоволоконных сетей формируется «пузырь». Кабелей проложено так много, что они могут просто не окупиться. Разбираемся, что вообще происходит./ Unsplash.com / FLY:DПокрытие для вс... |
| 06.12.2022 | How Will Elon Feel When He Realizes Congress Is Trying To Force Him To Throw Free Money At Newspapers He Hates? | We’ve written many times about the many problems of the JCPA (the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act). As noted, the bill is a really sketchy bit of corruption: creating a link tax to force internet companies to funnel money to new... |
| 28.10.2022 | Inside Microsoft’s security threat landscape (and how you can protect your company) | Register now for your free virtual pass to the Low-Code/No-Code Summit this November 9. Hear from executives from Service Now, Credit Karma, Stitch Fix, Appian, and more. Learn more.
Throughout the past few years, Microsoft has faced a slew... |
| 14.10.2022 | Big Tech and industry lobby groups accused in EU transparency complaints | Members of the European Parliament have lodged complaints against three tech giants, Amazon, Google and Meta, with the EU’s Transparency Register — aka, the oversight process that’s intended to track lobbying activity aimed at the bloc’s la... |
| 16.09.2022 | New Copyright Bill Will Take South Africa Into The 21st Century At Last | The new Copyright Amendment Bill goes a long way to fixing omissions, imbalances, discrimination, restrictions, and unconstitutionality in the current copyright law. Photo: Brent Meersman |
| 13.09.2022 | Behind Washington’s Antitrust Gambit | Summer is nearly over, but, for many politicians, destructive tech regulations are always in season. Congress is back from recess, and the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is once more under consideration. |
| 05.06.2022 | Graham family’s Foreign Policy pushes Big Tech-funded ‘analysis’ against antitrust bills | More On: lobbyists
BLM used donations to lobby Congress to impeach Trump Over 80 former Chuck Schumer staffers now employed by Big Tech Meat industry, Trump officials knowingly put workers at COVID-19 risk: report John Boehner accused of st... |
| 23.05.2022 | A look into Texas’ controversial anti-censorship law HB 20 | Freedom of speech has always felt like something of a major question mark when it comes to the internet. While there are many laws about it, there are plenty of gray areas as well, especially given how much nuance there is in U.S. speech la... |
| 16.05.2022 | Supreme Court Asked For An Emergency Review Of Texas’ Dangerous Social Media Law | As you’ll recall, last Wednesday, the 5th Circuit surprised lots of people by immediately reinstating Texas’s ridiculous content moderation law that basically creates an open season to sue large social media sites for any moderation choices... |
| 31.03.2022 | Basically Everyone Tells Senators Tillis & Leahy That The SMART Copyright Act Is An Incredibly Dumb Copyright Act | We’ve already detailed why the latest bill from Senators Thom Tillis and Pat Leahy, the SMART Copyright Act, is dangerous to the future of the internet. You can read that earlier article, but the short summary is that it would deputize the ... |
| 31.03.2022 | Google Cloud security survey is ‘aggressive’ move vs. Microsoft | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - August 3. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Learn more about Transform 2022
A new survey commissioned b... |
| 31.03.2022 | Google Cloud security survey is ‘aggressive’ move vs. Microsoft | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A new survey commissioned by Google Cloud brings ... |
| 10.03.2022 | Academics, Civil Society, Internet Companies All Explain Just How Ridiculously Dangerous SHOP SAFE Is | Last fall we had a whole series of blog posts explaining just how dangerous Rep. Jerry Nadler’s SHOP SAFE bill would be. It’s one of those bills that if you just hear what it’s about — stopping the sale of counterfeit goods online — sounds ... |
| 20.12.2021 | Judge Albright Names Lawyer For Patent Trolls As New Magistrate Judge For Waco | With the transformation of his Waco courtroom into the venue for more than 25% of all patent cases in the United States, Judge Albright can’t keep up with all the business he’s “drummed up” for his courtroom. He’s made heavy use of technica... |
| 02.12.2021 | Judge blocks Texas bill aimed at preventing social media companies from deplatforming people based on their ‘viewpoint’ | Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Alex Trautwig/MLB Photos via Getty Images
A bill signed in Texas aimed to stop social media firms censoring people based on their “viewpoint.”
A federal judge blocked the bill on Wednesday, saying it violated the Fir... |
| 02.12.2021 | Judge blocks Texas bill aimed at preventing social media companies from deplatforming people based on their 'viewpoint' | A bill signed in Texas aimed to stop social media firms censoring people based on their "viewpoint."
A federal judge blocked the bill on Wednesday, saying it violated the First Amendment.
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| 08.07.2021 | Donald Trump Sues Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, CEOs In Latest Social Media Battle | Contributing Author: Bryan Sullivan |
| 01.07.2021 | Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws | A controversial Florida law that would have prohibited certain social media platforms from banning political candidates or “journalistic enterprises” from their services has been blocked, hours before it was set to take effect. The law, whi... |
| 30.04.2021 | Disney Got Itself A 'If You Own A Themepark…' Carveout From Florida's Blatantly Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Bill | Earlier this year, we noted that a wide variety of states (mostly those controlled by angry, ignorant Republicans) were looking to pass blatantly unconstitutional bills that sought to force social media companies to host all speech and not ... |
| 30.04.2021 | Disney Got Itself A 'If You Own A Themepark...' Carveout From Florida's Blatantly Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Bill | Earlier this year, we noted that a wide variety of states (mostly those controlled by angry, ignorant Republicans) were looking to pass blatantly unconstitutional bills that sought to force social media companies to host all speech and not ... |
| 02.02.2021 | Tech Giants Warn US of Hostile Copyright Environment in EU and Russia | In recent years many countries around the world have tightened their copyright laws to curb the threat of online piracy.
These new regulations aim to help copyright holders, often by creating new obligations and restrictions for online serv... |
| 01.05.2020 | We're Saved! Company Claims It's Patented 'Containing the Spread of Disinformation' And Will Stop COVID-19 Disinfo | A friend sent over a press release announcement from a company called CREOpoint that claims it has patented "Containing the Spread of Disinformation" and that it was now using it to "help contain the spread of COVID-19 disinf... |
| 01.05.2020 | We're Saved! Company Claims It's Patented 'Containing the Spread of Disinformation' And Will Stop COVID-19 Disinfo | A friend sent over a press release announcement from a company called CREOpoint that claims it has patented “Containing the Spread of Disinformation” and that it was now using it to “help contain the spread of COVID-19 disinformation.” Woul... |
| 10.02.2020 | Tech Giants Warn U.S. Against EU Upload Filters and Site Blocking | Last year there were fierce protests against the EU Copyright Directive which, according to opponents, would result in broad upload filters on the web.
Despite this pushback, the directive passed, and individual EU member states are now wor... |
| 08.11.2019 | Tech Companies Warn U.S. Against Harmful Copyright Laws Worldwide | In recent years many countries around the world have tightened their copyright laws to curb the threat of online piracy.
These new regulations aim to help copyright holders, often by creating new obligations and restrictions for Internet se... |
| 09.02.2019 | Tech Giants Warn US Govt. Against Onerous Copyright Laws | In order to counter the ever-present threat of Internet piracy, countries all around the world are tightening their copyright laws.
Many Silicon Valley companies are not happy with these developments. This week the Computer & Communicat... |
| 12.12.2018 | Tech Giants Warn US Govt. Against EU’s ‘Article 13’ Plans | Under President Trump, the United States has worked hard to put several new trade deals in place.
The administration is also working on a new trade agreement with the EU for which the US Trade Representative recently asked the public for in... |
| 26.11.2018 | Why ‘fair use’ is so important for SA copyright law | - |
| 25.04.2018 | Europe eyes boosting data re-use and funds for AI research | The European Union’s executive body, the EC, has taken a first pass at drawing up a strategy to respond to the myriad socio-economic challenges around artificial intelligence technology — including setting out steps intended to boost invest... |
| 22.10.2017 | Tech Giants Warn Against Kodi Scapegoating | At the beginning of October, several entertainment industry groups shared their piracy concerns with the US Government’s Trade Representative (USTR).
Aside from pointing towards traditional websites, pirate streaming boxes were also brought... |
| 13.10.2017 | Tech Giants Protest Looming US Pirate Site Blocking Order | While domain seizures against pirate sites are relatively common in the United states, ISP and search engine blocking is not. This could change soon though.
In an ongoing case against Sci-Hub, regularly referred to as the “Pirate Bay of Sci... |
| 07.09.2017 | Oracle breaks with tech industry in backing human trafficking bill | Oracle is one of the few in the tech industry backing a bipartisan bill to hold websites facilitating human trafficking legally accountable.
The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Senator R... |
| 21.07.2017 | Samsung and Google are finally on the same side as Apple in a new battle | It remains to be seen how Apple’s legal battle with Qualcomm is going to play out, but from what we can tell so far, it seems as if the entire tech industry has already taken sides with Apple. If you recall, Apple earlier this year filed a ... |
| 12.07.2017 | How Facebook, Google, Netflix, and others supported net neutrality today | reader comments 47 with 38 posters participating
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| 28.05.2017 | Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others write to House of Representatives asking for reform of NSA surveillance | A letter signed by more than 30 major technology companies has been sent to the House Judiciary Committee calling for a number of key changes to be made to NSA surveillance. The letter, signed by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and M... |
| 06.02.2017 | A bill requiring the government to obtain a warrant to search your email just flew through the House | A bill set to update online privacy laws dating back three decades just cruised through the House by unanimous vote for the second time. The bipartisan bill known as the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 387), introduced by Colorado Rep. Jared Polis ... |
| 23.08.2016 | A List of Female Technology Policy Experts | Update: That escalated quickly. This list started with 15 names of women with insight on a particular issue of law and technology policy. In just over 24 hours, we have over 230 names of a wide variety of experts and over 100 more not yet a... |
| 19.04.2016 | Tech coalitions pen open letter to Burr and Feinstein over bill banning encryption | This Venn diagram created by TechCrunch summarizes the provisions of the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016.
A group of tech coalitions has written an open letter to Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), conc... |
| 04.03.2016 | On Judge Pym's Deadline, Many Filed Amicus Briefs Supporting Apple while one Father Pleaded with Apple to unlock the iPhone
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| 26.10.2015 | While Most Of The Rest Of The Internet Industry Is Fighting Against CISA, Facebook Accused Of Secretly Lobbying For It | For the past few years, much of the internet industry had been mostly silent on CISA, or vaguely for it, mainly because it would provide them immunity from liability if they share too much information with the government. However, as more d... |
| 21.10.2015 | US cyber information sharing bill sparks privacy concerns | The US Senate will consider a long-delayed bill that would make it easier for corporations to share information about cyber attacks with each other or the government, without concern about lawsuits.
The bill also mandates that information s... |
| 19.10.2015 | FCC investigates prices AT&T and Verizon charge Sprint and other rivals | Pictures of Money reader comments 21 with 18 posters participating
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| 17.10.2015 | Tech Giants Defend Domain Registrars Against Piracy Claims | Earlier this month several copyright holder groups submitted their overviews of “notorious markets” to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).
The U.S. Government uses this input to provide an overview of threats to various copyright industri... |
| 27.08.2015 | Tech Giants Want to Punish DMCA Takedown Abusers | Every day copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to various Internet services.
Most of these requests are legitimate, aimed at disabling access to copyright-infringing material. However, there are also many overbroad and a... |
| 02.07.2015 | Tech Giants Oppose Broad Anti-Piracy Injunctions | In recent months there have been several lawsuits in the U.S. in which copyright holders were granted broad injunctions, allowing them to seize domain names of alleged pirate sites.
In addition, these injunctions were sometimes directed at ... |
| 17.06.2015 | EU Parliament Takes A Small Step Towards Improving Copyright | On Wednesday, the European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) adopted a copyright reform proposal based on the report that Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda released earlier this year. There were tons of amendments and some of the importan... |
| 16.06.2015 | Retailers want to be able to scan your face without your permission | Benjamin Stone reader comments 191 with 79 posters participating
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| 11.01.2015 | Why Business Must Take The Lead In Protecting The Global Internet | Chris Mondini Contributor
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| 11.12.2014 | The Sky Is Rising For Luxury Goods Online | Earlier today, we at Floor64 released the latest “Sky is Rising” study that we’ve done, in association with CCIA, this time about the nature of the luxury goods market online: The Sky is Rising: Luxury Goods Edition. This is a bit of a depa... |
| 30.07.2014 | Who Is Saying What About the Leahy Surveillance Bill | Below you'll find a compilation of public statements on Senator Patrick Leahy's new and improved USA Freedom Act, which he unveiled yesterday.
Suffice it to say: the reviews are generally positive, give or take some rather qualified, less c... |
| 20.04.2014 | Aereo analysis: Cloud computing at a crossroads | Dime-sized antennas, by the thousands, housed in an Aereo datacenter in New York.
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| 01.02.2014 | Dr. Matthew Rimmer Takes A Closer Look At Fair Use | For this week’s Favorites of the Week, Dr. Matthew Rimmer wanted to focus in on some of the specific points that came up in the Congressional hearing on fair use earlier this week. While a bit different than our usual “favorites of the week... |
| 15.08.2013 | Once Again: Just Because You Can Search For Infringing Content Via Search Engines Doesn't Mean Many People Do | In case you’ve missed it, the legacy entertainment industry has a weird and almost entirely uninformed infatuation with Google. As far as I can tell, this is based almost entirely on the following correlation: “we used to be making a lot mo... |
| 06.08.2013 | DMCA Notices to Search Engines Won’t Mitigate Piracy, Tech Giants Say | One of the hottest piracy-related topics in recent times is the role search engines play in the discovery of unauthorized copyrighted material.
Rightsholders in their thousands have already sent Google more than 100 million DMCA takedown no... |
| 27.07.2013 | Tough Copyright Laws Chill Innovation, Tech Companies Warn Lawmakers | Since the SOPA and PIPA revolt last year, the copyright industry and the major tech companies have been living at odds.
Both sides often stress their interdependence, but also their differences in opinion. A new letter sent to lawmakers by ... |
| 26.03.2013 | How the maker of TurboTax fought free, simple tax filing | reader comments 342 with 159 posters participating
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Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes—and for free. You'd open up a prefi... |
| 30.01.2013 | Social Networks Use Civil Disobedience To Protect User Data | Facebook and Google deserve the criticism they have received over the years for fumbling user privacy. But the two Internet giants, along with Microsoft and Yahoo, also deserve kudos for defying police requests for users’ online communicati... |
| 04.01.2013 | One Problem With FTC/Google Settlement: Implies Fair Use Scraping Is An Antitrust Issue | While we’ve already covered the “settlement” between the FTC and Google, noting that it’s basically a complete win for Google, there are some areas to be concerned about. In particular, Ed Black, from CCIA, calls out the agreement from Goog... |
| 20.06.2012 | The Chilling Effects On Innovation Caused By Bad Copyright Law | We’ve talked a few times about how attacks on new innovations in the name of protecting copyright can create massive chilling effects. For example, the increasingly questionable arguments against Megaupload have created a real chill for onl... |
| 15.12.2011 | CCIA Slams Congressional Representatives Who Unfairly Attack US Companies For Speaking Up Against SOPA | The folks over at CCIA have made a really good point. One of the most offensive parts of the SOPA debate is how supporters of the bill, mainly Lamar Smith, have missed absolutely no opportunity to slam Google at every turn, while at the sam... |
| 07.11.2011 | Study Shows How SOPA/PIPA Will Harm Investment In Key Innovations | Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner (who has done fantastic research in the past on problems with the patent system) appears to have turned his attention to copyright law as well. A new report he has put out shows how the Second C... |
| 19.07.2011 | Once Again, Using Industry's Own Methodology Shows That Copyright Exceptions Contribute More To The Economy Than Copyright | The Copyright Industry absolutely loves to trot out its “numbers” about how much copyright contributes to the economy in terms of both dollars and jobs. The problem, as we’ve discussed, is that these studies have a counting problem. They si... |
| 22.06.2011 | Too broad or too narrow? Apple multitouch patent sparks debate | reader comments 92 with 60 posters participating
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Apple has been awarded a multitouch user interface patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office—a patent that has sparked d... |
| 18.03.2011 | Does Hollywood Deserve Its Own Patriot Act? | We recently covered the White House’s recommendations for new IP enforcement laws, which all too frequently went way too far — such as in trying to make streaming a felony and in allowing the feds to get wiretaps for copyright infringement ... |
| 17.03.2011 | Obama Supports Online Privacy, Except When Big Donors Don't | The Obama administration is on the Internet privacy bandwagon. At least, that's how it has tried to position itself. But at the same time, Obama and his crew have shown how quickly they'll reverse direction on the political-funding winds, w... |
| 30.09.2010 | Microsoft Argues Legal Standard Too High in Patent Cases | News Microsoft Argues Legal Standard Too High in Patent Cases By Kurt MackieSeptember 30, 2010
Microsoft gained some unlikely allies in an i4i software patent case that the company has been losing.
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| 30.09.2010 | Microsoft Argues Legal Standard Too High in Patent Cases | News Microsoft Argues Legal Standard Too High in Patent Cases By Kurt MackieSeptember 30, 2010
Microsoft gained some unlikely allies in an i4i software patent case that the company has been losing.
Microsoft's "friends of the court,&qu... |
| 30.06.2010 | Supreme Court Bilski Ruling Keeps Patent Law Vague | News Supreme Court Bilski Ruling Keeps Patent Law Vague By Natasha WatkinsJune 30, 2010
The Supreme Court this week issued its Bilski v. Kappos decision but chose not to weigh in on much debated issues that affect software patents.
In its d... |
| 30.06.2010 | Supreme Court Bilski Ruling Keeps Patent Law Vague | News Supreme Court Bilski Ruling Keeps Patent Law Vague By Natasha WatkinsJune 30, 2010
The Supreme Court this week issued its Bilski v. Kappos decision but chose not to weigh in on much debated issues that affect software patents.
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| 28.04.2010 | Intellectual Property and Innovation: Who’s Got It Right? | Companies that rely on fair use generated $4.7 trillion in revenues and $2.2 billion in value added – roughly 16.2 percent of U.S. GDP in 2007. This is among the findings of a report released yesterday by the Computer and Communications Ind... |
| 28.04.2010 | Copyright Defenders Don't Realize That New 'Fair Use' Report Mocks Their Own Study | Last year, we had written about how the CCIA had taken the same methodology used by entertainment industry lobbyists to claim how “big” the “copyright industry” was and applied it to the “fair use” industry, to show that it was actually muc... |
| 22.02.2010 | Tech Company Lobbying Group Explains The Importance Of Letting Countries Make Their Own Policy Decisions On Copyright | The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which represents a variety of big tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, eBay, Oracle and others, has come on strong lately as a defender against the ridiculous and unnece... |
| 20.08.2009 | There Is No Harmony In A Patent Thicket | This is the sixth post in a series of posts looking at the question of intellectual property rights in both China and India. We’ve got one more post to go. |
| 09.01.2009 | CCIA to Obama: Net neutrality to be an innovation engine | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 06.06.2008 | FTC investigating Intel? Get ready for another slap on the wrist | Are the antitrust regulators out hunting blue targets again?
I remember going out to Washington, D.C., to cover the Intel antitrust trial in 1999. The Federal Trade Commission had accused Intel of using the power of withholding information ... |
| 13.09.2007 | Fair Use: Worth More To The Economy Than Copyright? | I’ve been doing some research over the last few months into the economic impact of products where intellectual property protections are either ignored or non-existent, to see how the economics plays out. I’ll have a lot more to say on this ... |
| 29.08.2007 | The Tech Industry Wants You To Support The Fight For Fair Use | Listen very carefully to the copyright statement in this clip. Thinking about discussing last weekend’s game with family and friends? The NFL clearly states that viewers cannot talk about the game to anyone without permission
Insane stateme... |
