Policy Brief

Calendar

July 19
Deven McGraw will participate in a plenary panel discussion on privacy and access to information at the annual meeting of the Genetics Alliance at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
July 21
Jim Dempsey will speak at PLI's Privacy and Data Security Law Institute in Chicago.
July 23 - 24
Leslie Harris will speak at the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition in Washington, DC.
July 24
Leslie Harris will participate in a panel discussion of Online Information and Privacy Policy on July 24 at the Technology Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
September 11
Deven McGraw will deliver a keynote address, "Navigating the Privacy Issues," at the Northwest Medical Informatics Symposium in Spokane, Washington.
September 15
Deven McGraw will participate on a panel discussion on "Building the Health IT Infrastructure: How Do We Get There?" at the AHRQ Annual Conference in Bethesda, MD.
September 16
Deven McGraw will speak on "Practical Approaches to Privacy in Health Reform," at the Seventeenth National HIPAA Summit in Washington, DC.
October 15
Deven McGraw will participate on the health information technology panel at the National Quality Forum's 2009 fall policy conference in Washington, DC.
October 26 - 27
Deven McGraw will give a presentation at the Medication & Treatment Compliance Forum in Washington, DC.
November 10
Deven McGraw will present on privacy and security issues at the 5th Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress in Washington, DC.

Headlines

CDT, EFF and PK File Brief in Ringtones Case

CDT, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public Knowledge filed a "friend of the court" brief on Wednesday opposing efforts by the music licensing organization ASCAP to impose additional licensing payments on providers of musical ringtones for mobile phones. The brief urges the court to reject ASCAP's argument that ringtones are "public performances" under copyright law simply because a phone may ring when the user happens to be in a public place. ASCAP's position implies that numerous ordinary mobile phone users are copyright infringers and would expand copyright liability in ways that would chill innovation in products far beyond the relatively narrow context of ringtones. July 02, 2009

CDT, EFF and PK Amicus Brief [PDF] July 01, 2009

CDT Policy Post on Music Licensing Regime November 02, 2007

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal of "Remote DVR" Case

The Supreme Court today declined to reconsider a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding that Cablevision's "remote storage digital video recorder" would not infringe copyright. CDT and a number of others had argued to the 2nd Circuit that a finding of copyright infringement had the potential to chill innovation in a wide range of emerging products that use the Internet to provide storage and computing functions from remote locations. The Supreme Court's action effectively ends the significant threat posed by a lower court's 2007 ruling of infringement. June 29, 2009

Prior CDT Blog Post June 01, 2009

2nd Circuit Cablevision Opinion [PDF] August 04, 2008

CDT Policy Post April 06, 2007

Amicus Brief of CDT et al June 08, 2007

Other Leading Headlines

CDT's Health Privacy Project Releases Paper on De-identification of Personal Health Data June 25, 2009

Court Corrects Section 230 Opinion on Recommendation of CDT and Others June 24, 2009

CDT Releases Report Tracking Cyberspace Policy Review Privacy Action Items June 19, 2009

CDT Supports Privacy Provisions in the PASS ID Bill June 15, 2009

CDT Files Comments on Health Information Technology Extension Program June 12, 2009

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