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PK et al. Amicus Brief in Kirtsaeng v. John WIley & Sons, Inc.
This is the amicus brief filed by Public Knowledge, EFF, U.S. PIRG, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Special Libraries Association in support of Supap Kirtsaeng in the Supreme Court. This document is available as a pdf.
Letter from 130 Members of Congress to USTR Expressing Concern over Transparency in TPP
Below is the text of the letter. The original is available as a PDF here.
June 27, 2012
Dear Ambassador Kirk:
We write with regard to the ongoing negotiations over a potential Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement (FTA), an agreement that continues to grow in scope. Specifically, we write to urge you and your staff to engage in broader and deeper consultations with member of the full range of committees of Congress whose jurisdiction touches on the wide-ranging issues involved, and to ensure there is ample opportunity for Congress to have input on critical policies that will have broad ramifications for years to come.
Gigi Sohn's Testimony before the House E&C Committee RE: Future of Video
President and CEO Gigi Sohn's oral testimony is available as a PDF here. The written testimony, available below, is also available as a PDF here.
Testimony of Gigi B. Sohn
President, Public Knowledge
Before the
U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and
Commerce
Subcommittee on
Communications and Technology
Hearing On:
“The Future of Video”
Washington, DC
June 27, 2012
Gigi Sohn's Testimony before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee RE: UMG-EMI
PK President Gigi Sohn testified in opposition to the proposed UMG-EMI merger before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust on June 21, 2012.
The Role of Antitrust in Protecting Competition, Innovation, and Consumers as the Digital Revolution Matures: The Case against the Universal-EMI Merger and E-Book Price Fixing
This paper on the UMG-EMI merger was published by Mark Cooper and Jodie Griffin on June 14, 2012. A PDF version, with full bibliography and appendix, is available here.
Mark Cooper,
Director of Research, Consumer
Federation of America
Fellow, Donald McGannon Communications
Research Center, Fordham University
Jodie Griffin,
Staff Attorney, Public Knowledge
June 2012
preservesthe openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright, and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.
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