Computer & Communications Industry Association
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| Formation | 1972 |
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| Purpose | Lobbying |
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is an international non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington, DC which represents the computer, Internet, information technology, and telecommunications industries. According to their site, CCIA "promotes open markets, open systems, open networks, and full, fair, and open competition." Established in 1972, CCIA was active in anti-trust cases involving IBM, AT&T and Microsoft, and lobbied for net neutrality, copyright and patent reform and against internet censorship and policies, mergers or other situations that would reduce competition. CCIA released a study it commissioned by an MIT professor, which analyzed the cost of patent trolls to the economy., a study on the economic benefits of Fair Use and has testified before the Senate on limiting government surveillance and on internet censorship as a trade issue.
CCIA members include a range of internet services companies to software to telecom companies such as Dish Network, eBay, Facebook, Google, Intuit, Uber, Microsoft, nVidia, Sprint Nextel, and Amazon.
The group has lobbied on Internet freedom issues like the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act,testified on Internet censorship as a human rights and trade issue and also lobbied on privacy issues including government surveillance by the US National Security Agency CCIA has also lobbied for patent litigation reform, including the Innovation Act, and provides the website Patent Progress, which is dedicated to patent issues.
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