The Association for Competitive Technology ('ACT') is an international trade association for the technology industry. ACT represents nearly 3,000 software developers, systems integrators, IT consulting and training firms and e-businesses from around the world. Almost all ACT's members are small and medium-sized enterprises ('SMEs') such as entrepreneurial technology companies, for [...]

Innovation in the information technology (IT) industry is the driving force behind the nation's unprecedented economic and productivity growth. For technology innovation to continue, independent software developers and smaller IT businesses must be able to protect and monetize their intellectual property (IP) assets. Today's global marketplace can multiply these productivity [...]

ABSTRACT The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is so intent on blocking the Oracle-PeopleSoft merger that it has sent up a market definition that will go down swinging when the 9th Circuit Court hears the case this month. The DoJ's case is too selective in defining relevant products, looks at [...]

Escalating rhetoric on both sides of this question is making it hard to reach consensus about what's fair or what's fair use.  But there is broad consensus on a few points: To answer "What's fair?", Congress and the courts must balance the interests of content owners and content users.  A [...]