Archive for Digital Updates – 2019
Staff / Alliance Hosts Congressional Fly-In to Advocate for Passage of the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act
On Tuesday, September 10, the Alliance is hosting a Congressional fly-in to advocate for the passage of the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.” Executives representing ... Read More
Staff / DOJ, FTC Initiate Antitrust Investigations Into Tech Platforms
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, turn over all information they have related to previous antitrust investigations ... Read More
Staff / House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on Data Privacy and Tech Competition
On Thursday, September 12, the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 3: The Role of Data ... Read More
Staff / State Attorneys General Join Together in a Major Antitrust Probe of Google and Facebook
On September 6, the New York Attorney General announced that New York is leading a bipartisan, multistate investigation of Facebook’s dominant role in the digital ... Read More
Staff / The Alliance Responds to Facebook’s Reported News Content Licensing Plans
On August 9, the News Media Alliance released a statement following reports that Facebook is planning to license content from news publishers, including headlines and ... Read More
Staff / House Leaders Call for the Removal of Section 230 from USMCA
On August 6, the Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter ... Read More
Staff / NMA and CNPA Calls on Californian Lawmakers to Amend CCPA
On August 6, the News Media Alliance and the California News Publishers Association asked news publishers to support amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act ... Read More
Staff / Representative DeSaulnier Calls Attention to the Demise of Local News
On July 31, Representative Mark DeSaulnier, one of the co-sponsors of H.R. 2054, the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act,” participated in a panel on the ... Read More
Staff / Senate Holds a Copyright Office Oversight Hearing, Plans Roundtables on Office Modernization
On July 30, the Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee held a U.S. Copyright Office oversight hearing with the recently appointed Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple as ... Read More
Staff / EU Court Holds Websites Jointly Liable for Data Privacy Violations when Using Social Widgets
On July 29, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) found that website operators are liable for data protection violations that arise from ... Read More
