On March 6, 2024, ACT | The App Association led a briefing on Capitol Hill to discuss the dissonance between Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and recent arguments to enable broad rights to repair consumer devices. We were joined by experts Devlin Hartline, Legal Fellow, Hudson [...]
We have said it once, and we’ll say it again: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must be careful not to adopt broad rulemaking that would invite serious security, privacy, and intellectual property (IP) risks for U.S. businesses. This broad rulemaking includes the heavily debated consumers’ right to repair as recently [...]
For ACT | The App Association’s small business members, generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has become an incredible tool to reduce the time and cost of bringing technologies to market. While some might think of large companies like OpenAI as the ultimate authority on public-facing GAI models, App Association members have [...]
There is no question that generative artificial intelligence (GAI) is changing the way businesses develop code, visual art, music, and other creative works but, as we have identified in here, growing pains still persist as intellectual property, security, and privacy concerns are being closely scrutinized. One such growing pain is [...]
On November 15, 2023, ACT | The App Association hosted a Capitol Hill briefing that featured a conversation between copyright experts and small businesses to educate members of Congress about the benefits and risks of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) for copyright rights holders. GAI has accelerated creation and innovation for [...]