John:
I don’t wish to guess as to who encouraged this hearing or what the view of staff is.
However, IP interests have long exercised considerable influence over this Subcommittee, which has primary responsibility for patents, trademarks, and copyrights. The same
Subcommittee recently held two separate days of hearings on "Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites” – although Chairman Goodlatte has also
stated that he opposes the expansion of Federal domain seizure authority as proposed in last year’s Senate COICA legislation. So the choice of venue is significant in that it means the hearing will probably be more IP-centric.
Best,
Philip
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From: john@crediblecontext.com [mailto:john@crediblecontext.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:28 AM
To: Phil Corwin
Cc: bc-gnso@icann.org
Subject: RE: [bc-gnso] House Judiciary Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on gTLD Program
Phil,
Do you have a sense of where staff wants to take the hearing? Do you know who instigated? Do you think it is more meaningful because it is a subcommittee of
Judiciary and not Commerce?
Berard
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Subject: [bc-gnso] House Judiciary Subcommittee to Hold Hearing on gTLD
Program
From: Phil Corwin <psc@vlaw-dc.com>
Date: Tue, April 26, 2011 6:31 am
To: "bc-gnso@icann.org" <bc-gnso@icann.org>FYI--
Hearing Information
Hearing on: "ICANN Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Oversight Hearing"
Wednesday 5/4/2011 - 10:00 a.m.
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet
By Direction of the Chairman
--As of yet, no witnesses listed --
Philip S. Corwin, Founding Principal
Virtualaw LLC
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Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20004
202-559-8597/Direct
202-559-8750/Fax
202-255-6172/cell
"Luck is the residue of design" -- Branch Rickey
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