ACT’s Morgan Reed Joins White House IP Czar and Industry Leaders on ITIF Event on IP Protection
(Washington)—Association of Competitive Technology Executive Director Morgan Reed today appeared with tech industry leaders and Victoria Espinel, the White House IP Czar, at the ITIF event, The Next Generation of [...]
Innovation and IGF – Lessons from Purple Rain
I never meant to cause you any trouble, I never meant to cause you any pain The opening lines of Purple Rain serve to sum up the challenges faced by [...]
ACT Applauds Progress on ECPA and Cloud Computing
The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) applauds the steps taken by the Senate and House Judiciary Committees to highlight concerns addressing cloud computing and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Cloud [...]
Talking Like a Pirate? Good. Acting Like One? Bad.
Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! While talking like a pirate (“Ahoy, matey!”) might be fun and games, ACTING like a pirate by stealing or sharing music, movies, and software is not. Many people think that piracy is an issue that only affects large software, music, and movie companies, but as we have seen from recent reports, small- and medium-sized businesses are preyed upon as well.
New Study: Decrease Piracy, Increase Economic Growth
The Business Software Alliance’s new impact study on software piracy was released this week and we’re happy to see that it supports what we’ve been saying all along: protecting IP means creating jobs.
On price and value
As this cartoon points out, the iPhone apps business isn’t all fame and fortune. Customers who don’t hesitate spending $5 on a quick, fancy cup of coffee think twice before [...]