ARLINGTON, Va. -- Pointing to Colombia's high tariffs on U.S. technology products, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA[R]) urged Congress to swiftly pass the Colombia Free Trade Agreement FTA and level the playing field for American exports. Earlier today, President Bush announced he would send the agreement to Congress tomorrow. The...
LAS VEGAS AFP — The world's largest consumer electronics trade show opened Monday with a rallying cry for the United States to shun protectionism and throw its borders open wide to trade and immigration. Consumer Electronics Association CEA chief executive Gary Shapiro said fear of terrorism and concerns about...
CEA, MPAA, RIAA Formally Ask Congress to Act LAS VEGAS -- The content and consumer electronics industries united around a policy issue driving both industries - international trade. Today, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA[R]), the Motion Picture Association of America MPAA and the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA...
In testimony given today before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality http://energycommerce.house.gov/Subcommittees/eaq.shtml, the Consumer Electronics Association http://www.ce.org CEA expressed concern regarding st In testimony given today before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality http://energycommerce.house.gov/Subcommittees/eaq.shtml, the...
Statement of Gary Shapiro President & CEO, Consumers Electronics Association Committee on Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation January 24, 2006 On behalf of the Home Recording Rights Coalition and the Consumer Electronics Association, I appreciate the Committee`s invitation to appear today. At CEA, we have more than 2,000 members who...
Statement of Michael Petricone Vice President, Government Affairs Consumer Electronics Association CEA Committee on House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property November 3, 2005 On behalf of the Home Recording Rights Coalition and the Consumer Electronics Association, I greatly appreciate the subcommittee`s invitation to appear today. The...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The following statement was issued today by Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) President and CEO Gary Shapiro commending the House Commerce Committee for today's hearing on digital content and innovation:
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The most recent request by content companies to expand copyright law and dictate how consumer electronics products can be designed and used is a bad solution in search of a problem, said Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) President and CEO Gary Shapiro in testimony delivered today before a...
WHAT: Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association CEA, will testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications ...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Congress should be extremely concerned about the proposals from the content community to suppress technological development on arbitrary or insufficient bases, stated Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) vice president of technology policy Michael Petricone in testimony delivered today before a congressional committee. Testifying on behalf of CEA and...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- In testimony given today before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) called for a national framework for electronics recycling. The testimony came as the subcommittee convened for the second of a two-part hearing examining the issue...
The Community Action Program CAP was one of the highest-profile but least successful of President Johnson's Great Society programs. Pluralist and neo-Marxist theories hold that the origins of CAP and the problems that the program encountered were rooted in the politics of interest group and racial conflict, respectively. Drawing on...
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Last week's federal court ruling in the CleanFlicks case proved how copyright law has tilted toward content owners at the expense of the public, according to Consumer Electronics Association (CEAR) President and CEO Gary Shapiro. A federal court in Denver found that CleanFlicks, a business that bought...
While the presidential ballot recount continues in Florida, the wireless and wireline telecom industries can start counting on a new ally in Congress with the election of a Consumer Electronics Association official to the House from a California district. Republican candidate Darrell Issa, CEA chairman, received 61 percent of...
OTC traders and end-users shaken by uncertainty of the legal status of swaps soon may have their concerns quelled. Sen. Richard Lugar [R-Ind.) may prepare legislation mandating a halt to any broad new regulation of swaps by the CFTC. Lugar suggested legislators wait to decide on...
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