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SOPA Bill Faces New Hurdles

in News on January 18 at 1:10 pm PT

Antipiracy bills in Congress faced new hurdles Wednesday as House Speaker John Boehner said the legislation wasn’t ready for a vote and more than a half-dozen senators expressed reservations in some form.

Google to Create World’s Largest Searchable Archive of Arguments Against Google Books

in News on September 11, 2009 at 8:07 am PT

Add another name to the list of opponents of the Google Book Search Settlement: Marybeth Peters, U.S. Register of Copyrights. In testimony before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Thursday, Peters tarred the deal as “fundamentally at odds with the law” and villainized Google, saying the company is making a “mockery” of the copyright protections in the U.S. Constitution.
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Yahooglesoft Lawyers Speak!

in News on July 16, 2008 at 5:59 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown went to Washington, D.C. to see lawyers from Microsoft, Yahoo and Google face off in Senate hearings about the controversial search advertising outsourcing deal recently struck between Yahoo and Google. Here’s a video of BoomTown chatting up Google’s Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith and Michael Callahan, general counsel for Yahoo, right after the Senate hearings were over.

Miss BoomTown Goes to Washington (Of Course, for MicroHoo Plus Google)

in News on July 15, 2008 at 7:00 am PT

Today, BoomTown boards the Acela Express from New York’s Penn Station to D.C.’s Union Station to attend the Senate hearing on the Yahoo agreement with Google to outsource some of its ad search business. Titled rather ominously, “The Google-Yahoo Agreement and the Future of Internet Advertising,” the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights (eek!) will hear testimony at 10:30 a.m. at the Dirksen Senate Office Building from a passel of Internet reps, including those from Yahoo, Microsoft and Google.