ACT Policy Brief: Piracy & DRM

Digital Rights Management (DRM): Whose rights are being managed? (revisited) Unstoppable market forces will drive digital rights management. Consumers worldwide are buying more blank CDs and less recorded music, pushing blank CD sales up 40 percent in 2002 while recorded music sales fell 16 percent. That's an unmistakable sign that [...]

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Zuck Senate Testimony on Microsoft Settlement

Introduction Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, or ACT. On behalf of our member companies, it is my sincere honor to testify before this committee today. As a professional software developer and technology educator, I am [...]

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ACT Letter on the Daschle-Lierberman Amendment

RE: Daschle-Lieberman Homeland Security Amendment Dear Senator: On behalf of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), I write in opposition to the proposed Daschle-Lieberman Amendment to the Department of Homeland Security Bill, H.R. 5005. By removing the risk sharing and indemnification protections for government contractors that were part of the [...]

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Testimony for Hearing on “Are All Online Travel Sites Good for the Consumer: An Examination of Supplier Owned Online Travel Sites?”

The issue before this committee today transcends the air travel industry. The current situation in this industry is part of the natural struggle between entrenched business models and the ongoing drive toward greater efficiencies and consumer benefits through innovation in the marketplace and on the Internet. The Association for Competitive [...]

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