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Copyright Bill May Severely Limit Rights
News The Copyright Office recommended that Congress amend the Copyright Act," the two politicians wrote in a five-page letter sent last month to members of the subcommittee that oversees intellectual property.
[July 12, 2002, 8:02]
Net Neutrality Fight Returns To Senate
News The ongoing dispute clearly had some politicians concerned about the chances that the broader bill will pass. Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, said he was confident that the politicians would reach a compromise but that they...
[June 14, 2006, 10:40]
How The Democrats' Win Affects Tech
News But in practice, Republican politicians have been nearly as enthusiastic about helping Hollywood. Hollywood tends to be solidly Democratic: employees of companies such as Viacom, Walt Disney and Vivendi Universal consistently write cheques to...
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
US Politicians Oppose Tax On Net Access
News That's the way it should remain, some politicians said at a brief hearing in Washington convened by a House of Representatives panel on commercial and administrative law. A permanent moratorium will send a strong, pro-investment signal to those...
[May 23, 2007, 11:08]
Kazaa In Child Porn Investigation
News The US Congress is targeting peer-to-peer networks again -- and this time politicians aren't fretting over music and software piracy. The release of the reports will come at a time when Congress is increasingly focused on the Internet, children and...
[March 13, 2003, 10:01]
EBay Tries Email In Net Neutrality Fight
News eBay this week unleashed a political machine that should make politicians envious: a national email blast over net neutrality. Meg Whitman, chief executive of the Internet auctioneer, called on more than a million eBay members to get involved in...
[June 2, 2006, 9:30]
US Presses Ahead With Patent Reforms
News Those inconsistencies will have to be reconciled if the full slate of House and Senate politicians ultimately approve the bills in floor votes. The US patent system transformation long sought by hi-tech industry players like Microsoft, Amazon.com...
[July 23, 2007, 9:22]
US Presidential Hopeful Spams Voters
News There are some signs that politicians see spam as a cheap and effective way to reach voters. So have many other politicians. For example, out of about a dozen bills introduced in Congress that promise to regulate commercial spam, not one attempts...
[August 19, 2003, 16:00]
Internet Firms Attack US Broadband Bill
News AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon Communications spent $230.9m on politicians from 1998 until the present, while the Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon.com and eBay spent only a combined $71.2m.
[March 29, 2006, 16:00]
Government Backs Anti-spam Mission To US
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms is giving his support to a delegation of UK politicians who are travelling to America next month to lobby for stricter spam controls. Sadly it's now apparent the DTI were, like the American Congress, listening only...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
US Homeland Security CIO Blamed For IT Woes
News Those are events that we report on as a data-gathering tool," the IT chief told the politicians, adding that he was confident all breaches considered significant had been addressed properly. On a broader level, Charbo said he realises the agency...
[June 21, 2007, 10:35]
Domain Name Price Hikes Attacked
News VeriSign and ICANN have defended the deal, making arguments about Internet security that have been echoed in letters sent to the Commerce Department by sympathetic politicians. While Congress doesn't have the authority to block approval of the...
[June 8, 2006, 8:40]
Congress Critical Of Homeland Security's Tech Efforts
News The US Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday sustained more bashing of its cybersecurity efforts from politicians and government auditors. For a number of politicians, that assurance wasn't good enough.
[September 14, 2006, 8:55]
Berners-Lee: Keep The Internet Free
News World wide web father Tim Berners-Lee told politicians on Thursday that it's critical to shield his seminal innovation from control by a single company or country. He was the sole witness invited to speak at a hearing in Washington, DC titled "The...
[March 2, 2007, 8:12]
Email Answer To Anthrax Risk
News Congress is also urging constituents to communicate with politicians via email instead of regular mail. Later Monday, Senator Max Cleland, a Georgia Democrat, told CNN that Congress is asking constituents to communicate with their senators or...
[October 17, 2001, 8:53]
US Legislature Suggests China Web Crackdown
News During Wednesday's hearing, politicians predicted that this bill would be introduced in the next few days, perhaps even as early as Thursday. While the measure is likely to draw support from some politicians from both major parties, no companion...
[February 20, 2006, 12:35]
Fighting Outsourcing 'could Spark Trade War'
News Still, the trend shows now sign of reversing, and the IT trade group cautioned politicians against interfering. Feeling political pressure from Congress over the loss of US tech jobs to offshore workers, the Computer Systems Policy Project on...
[January 8, 2004, 9:15]
Cyberattack Threat Spurs US Rethink On Power Grids
News The potential for 'cybersecurity' attacks on the US's electric power grids has spurred politicians to consider legislation to broaden federal authority over electric companies. US Congress has already been consulting with federal agencies and...
[September 15, 2008, 13:35]
Porn Spammers Ignore New Labelling Rule
News When politicians in Congress touted the Can-Spam Act last year, they predicted it would help clean out clogged Internet inboxes. Spammers flooding the Internet with pornographic solicitations apparently are not abiding by a new federal rule that...
[May 27, 2004, 11:30]
ICANN Proposes New Net Tax
News The forthcoming requirement from ICANN is striking because the organisation had proposed a $1 annual tax on domain names five years ago and was soundly rebuked by politicians and conservative activists.
[December 16, 2004, 14:50]
