The Association for Competitive Technology has long supported the protection of intellectual property as a critical element of small business. Representing over 4,000 small business software developers we understand the damage that piracy poses to the innovation economy and recognize the role that government and industry must play in stopping [...]
In my last post, Hillicon Valley Gets Duped by Anti-IPR “Activists,” I noted that a group called “Fight for the Future” was dead wrong about the effects of S. 978, a bill proposing that the criminal penalties for high-volume, intentional, for-profit mass piracy should be similar, regardless of whether they [...]
The Hill’s technology blog, Hillicon Valley just posted Brendan Sasso’s story, Bill would send Justin Bieber to prison, group says. As the father of a fourth-grade girl, I assumed that that the bill mentioned must expand criminal-nuisance laws. But the whole story was just nonsense: It just recorded gibberish spouted [...]
ACT has been a leading proponent of legislation that helps protect manufacturers from companies who use stolen software to compete unfairly. These are known broadly as unfair competition or unfair trade practices laws. These laws empower manufacturers to seek damages against foreign competitors that use unlicensed, or pirated, products in [...]
In early June, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on European Standardisation intending to “accelerate, simplify and modernise standardisation procedures”. In this document, the Commission has singled out ICT as a sector where standards are important, playing a role in stimulating innovation, cutting administrative burdens and encouraging [...]