| EU to Impose Tax on
Downloaded Products |
5/6. The European
Commission issued a release
in which it stated that the EU's Council of Economics and
Finance Ministers will meet on Tuesday, May 7, to impose a new
tax on products that are downloaded electronically. The rule
will require U.S. companies to charge a value added tax (VAT)
on sales into the European Union (EU).
The release states that "The Council is due to adopt
definitively, without discussion, a Directive and a Regulation
to modify the rules for applying value added tax (VAT) to
certain services supplied by electronic means as well as
subscription- based and pay- per- view radio and television
broadcasting. The new rules, based on Commission proposals of
7 June 2000 (see IP/00/583
and MEMO/00/31),
will create a level playing field for the taxation of digital
e-commerce in accordance with the principles on the taxation
of e-commerce agreed at a 1998 OECD Ministerial Conference.
The rules will ensure that when these services are supplied
for consumption within the European Union, they will be
subject to EU VAT, and that when they are supplied for
consumption outside the EU, they will be exempt from VAT. The
changes modernise the existing VAT rules to accommodate the
emerging electronic business environment and to provide a
clear and certain regulatory environment for all suppliers,
located within or outside the EU. The rules also contain a
number of facilitation and simplification measures aimed at
easing the compliance burden for business. Member States must
implement the new measures by 1 July 2003." (Hyperlinks
added.) |
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| CDT Files Amicus Brief in
Yahoo v. LICRA |
5/6. The Center for Democracy
and Technology (CDT) filed an amicus
curiae brief [45 pages in PDF] with the U.S.
Court of Appeals (9thCir) in Yahoo
v. LICRA, a case involving a French court order
that Yahoo "render impossible" access by persons in
France to certain content on servers located in the United
States.
The CDT argues that "The French judgment that prompted
this appeal places our tradition of free expression in
jeopardy. It represents a direct attempt by a foreign nation
to apply its law extraterritorially to restrict the freedom of
expression of U.S. based online speakers who are protected by
the First Amendment."
In 2000 two French groups, LICRA
and UEJF,
obtained a judgment from a French court ordering Yahoo to
"render impossible" access by persons in France to
Nazi related content on servers located in the United States.
The French court issued the following order: "We order
the Company YAHOO! Inc. to take all necessary measures to
dissuade and render impossible any access via Yahoo.com to the
Nazi artifact auction service and to any other site or service
that may be construed as constituting an apology for Nazism or
a contesting of Nazi crimes."
Yahoo, which is a Delaware corporation based in San Jose,
California, then filed a complaint in U.S.
District Court (NDCal) seeking a declaratory judgment that
the judgment of the French court is unenforceable in the U.S.
as contrary to the U.S. Constitution, and in particular, the
First Amendment.
The French parties have sought to evade an adverse ruling by
the U.S. Courts by raising a wide range of procedural issues,
while at the same time down playing the First Amendment issue.
They filed a Rule 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss the complaint for
lack of personal jurisdiction. The District Court issued its Order
Denying Motion to Dismiss [PDF] on June 7, 2001. On
November 7, 2001, the District Court issued its Order
Granting Motion for Summary Judgment [PDF] in favor of
Yahoo. The District Court rejected the French parties'
arguments regarding substantial controversy, actual
controversy, comity, forum shopping, substantial compliance
with the French order, and pre-trial discovery.
The District Court held that "What is at issue here is
whether it is consistent with the Constitution and law of the
United States for another nation to regulate speech by a
United States resident within the United States on the basis
that such speech can be accessed by Internet users in that
nation." Then, with little further explanation, the
District Court held that the First Amendment precludes
enforcement within the United States of a foreign court order
intended to regulate the content of speech over the Internet.
The French parties appealed to the Court of Appeals, again,
focusing on precedural issues.
The CDT, along with many other speech related groups, filed
the present amicus brief in support of Yahoo. They seek to
focus the Appeals Court's attention on the First Amendment.
Amici argue that "The French judgment that prompted this
appeal places our tradition of free expression in jeopardy. It
represents a direct attempt by a foreign nation to apply its
law extraterritorially to restrict the freedom of expression
of U.S. based online speakers who are protected by the First
Amendment. It does so because the Plaintiff, Yahoo! ..., has
chosen the Internet as its means of communication.
Amici continue that "The French court's order is but one
example of the sort of judgment that this and other American
courts can expect to see with increasing frequency as Internet
use expands throughout the world. It is a predictable
consequence of the global character of the Internet and the
conflicts that inevitably will arise concerning speech
protected by the U.S. Constitution but forbidden by repressive
laws elsewhere." |
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| Trademarks, Gripe Sites,
and Free Speech |
5/6. The American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus
curiae brief [33 pages PDF] with the U.S.
Court of Appeals (6thCir) in Taubman
Company v. Mishkoff. The case involves
trademark, anti cybersquatting, and First Amendment law in the
context of registering domain names that include trademarks,
for the purpose of criticizing the trademarks' holders.
The plaintiff, Taubman Company, owns shopping malls. It holds
trademarks. The defendant, Henry Mishkoff, registered domain
names containing trademarks registered by Taubman. He then
published criticism of Taubman in web sites located at these
URLs. See, for example, www.taubmansucks.com.
Taubman filed a complaint in U.S. District Court
(EDMich) against Mishkoff alleging Eastern District of
Michigan for trademark infringement, unfair competition, and
violation of the Anti Cybersquatting Protection Act (ACPA), 15
U.S.C. § 1125(d). The District Court issued a preliminary
injunction against Mishkoff.
On appeal, the ACLU sides with Mishkoff. It asks that the
preliminary injunction be vacated on the grounds that it
constitutes a prior restraint of protected speech in violation
of the First Amendment. The ACLU argues that "there are a
growing number of cases in which trademark owners have tried
to use these remedies to stifle legitimate criticism and
speech protected by the First Amendment." The ACLU also
argues that Mishkoff's actions do not constitute infringement
or a violation of the ACPA. |
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| Online Games and Gambling
Legislation |
5/2. Rep. Carolyn
Kilpatrick (D-MI) introduced HR 4652,
titled the "Consumer Protection for On-Line Games
Act". It would provide a minimal federal regulatory
scheme for games of chance and games of skill provided over
communications networks.
The bill would provide that the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) "shall prescribe rules in
accordance with this section to prohibit unfair and deceptive
acts and practices in the labeling and advertising of games of
chance and games of skill offered by means of the
communications networks by network game operators".
The bill further provides that FTC rules shall "prohibit
network game operators from making false, nonsubstantiated,
nonverifiable, or misleading claims regarding (A) the fairness
of any specific such game of chance or game of skill, or
combination thereof played by the consumer; (B) whether the
game offered is a game of skill or a game of chance, or a
combination thereof; and (C) if the game offered is a game of
chance, or a combination of skill and chance, whether all
participants (including the game operator) are accorded equal
or unequal chance".
The FTC has only civil enforcement authority.
The bill also provides for "a self- regulatory
organization" of online game operators that would
"enforce compliance by its members". Such
organization would be able discipline its members by
"expulsion" or by "revocation of the authority
to display or advertise any seal or insignia".
The defines "network game operator" as "a
public or private business enterprise that engages in the
business of providing game playing services (as opposed to the
sale or download of a game as a publisher or distributor),
either for a fee or for free, using a communication path
between the player and the game operator that is part of a
communications network."
The bill defines "communications network" as "a
public or private communication system that is used for the
exchange of information or participation in transactions (or
both) and includes systems such as the telephone system, cable
systems, satellite systems, wireless systems, or the
Internet."
The bill has no original cosponsors. It was referred to the House Commerce Committee,
of which Rep. Kilpatrick is not a member.
On Wednesday, May 8, the House Judiciary
Committee is scheduled to mark up HR 3215,
the "Combatting Illegal Gambling Reform and Modernization
Act". This bill, which is sponsored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte
(R-VA), and 155 other members of the House, would limit
Internet gambling.
The Goodlatte bill would amend 18
U.S.C. § 1081 and § 1084,
which contain the definitions and prohibition, respectively,
of the Wire Act. The Wire Act currently criminalizes the use
of "wire communications facilities" in interstate
commerce for gambling. The Wire Act does not ban gambling.
This is a matter of state law. HR 3215 expands the
prohibition to cover all communications between states or with
other foreign countries. It maintains the principle that
gambling is otherwise a matter of state law. Hence, under HR 3215,
use of the Internet for gambling purposes would become illegal
(if interstate or foreign).
HR 3215 also criminalizes "the transmission of a
communication in interstate or foreign commerce ... which
entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result
of bets or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing
of bets or wagers". Also, like HR 556,
the Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act,
sponsored by Rep. James
Leach (R-IA), HR 3215 would prohibit the use of
credit, electronic funds transfers, and checks in connection
with illegal gambling. |
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| USPTO Director Wants to
Give Customers More Choices |
5/3. U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) Director James Rogan
gave a speech at the Licensing Executives Society Spring
Meeting. He stated that the two challenges facing the USPTO
are reducing pendency and improving patent quality. He said
that to meet these challenges, the USPTO will have to change
its paradigm, and give patent applicants more choices.
"We cannot sacrifice quality for the sake of
pendency," said Rogan, adding that "we can give you
two week pendancy -- you may not want to defend that patent in
court." He said that reducing pendency and improving
quality "is a dream unless we change the paradigm under
which we operate".
"Today, we expect this year to get about 375,000 new
applications ... Those applications will get in line behind
350,000 pending applications, in the backlog. Our average
pendency today is about two years. ... Pendency in some areas
of the technical arts, like in engineering can be three and
four years." He added that "In a 21st Century
information based technology driven economy we cannot operate
under that paradigm and expect to be competitive and perform
the service for our customers that they expect."
Rogan then reviewed the different types of customers that the
USPTO has, and what their different interests are. For
example, he said that there are people "you work with
that never have any intention of really moving something ...
maybe they want a registration for now just to see what
happens". Although, he offered a caution about submarine
patents. Next, he said that there are also applicants who have
already gone through a European Patent Office search. There
are some who have already done an extensive in house search.
And, there are some who like the old fashioned process.
"What I am suggesting is that right now it is a one size
fits all model. That is not good for business. And, I don't
think it is for governance. I want to see if there is a way
that we can ... give our customers the opportunity to decide
what it is that they need from us when they need it." He
added that there is a working group at the USPTO that is
studying this, and taking comments from USPTO customers.
He wrapped up with the following statement. "This train
is coming down the track. We are dead serious. I have no idea
whether we are going to be able to sell it the administration,
or we are going to be able to sell it to Congress, or we are
going to be able to sell it to the user community. But, we are
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| Nobel Economists Comment on
Broadband Regulation |
5/3. Numerous comments have been submitted to the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) recently that pertain to its regulatory treatment of
broadband services. Perhaps it is noteworthy that among the
many comments is one from veteran Nobel prize winning
economists Kenneth
Arrow and Gary Becker.
Arrow, Becker, and others submitted a comment
[PDF] in which they argue that the FCC "should not
regulate broadband Internet access at this time. In the
current market, there is no justification for substituting
government regulatory criteria for the competitive process of
the marketplace in arriving at optimal technologies, access
arrangements, and business models. The results of such
regulation can only suppress investment into new technologies
and services that would otherwise increase consumer choice and
enhance the development of advanced communications
networks."
They reason that "Whatever the virtue of common carrier
and unbundling regulations as applied to legacy networks -- be
they telephone or cable -- applying such regulations to the
new facilities necessary for the provision of broadband
Internet access service would likely have a significant and
distorting impact on the willingness of existing providers to
make the risky new investments needed to provide broadband
services efficiently. While, in certain circumstances, common
carrier and unbundling requirements may help open a monopoly
market to competition, imposing such rules at the beginning of
a product cycle is likely to prove harmful to entrepreneurs
and consumers alike. This is particularly the case when all
indications are that robust competition among a number of
facilities based alternatives will otherwise prevail."
They also argue that "There are significant costs in
imposing common carrier and/or unbundling obligations on any
providers of broadband Internet access services. It is
typically not possible to have cost based rates and, at the
same time, encourage efficient investment when there is
substantial technological change and uncertainty associated
with the success of such investments. Particularly, at this
point in the evolution of broadband Internet access
technologies, proper public policy should aim to encourage,
rather than discourage, investment."
In addition, they stated that "In the light of the
emerging competition among different technologies, broadband
Internet access providers already have adequate incentives to
negotiate access arrangements with unaffiliated ISPs that
bring additional value to consumers through new content,
features, and functions."
Kenneth Arrow is an emeritus professor of economics at
Stanford University. His Nobel prize winning career is built
upon his "Arrow's Theorem". See, Social
Choice and Individual Values, first published in 1951.
Gary Becker is a Nobel prize winning economist at the
University of Chicago and the Hoover Institution.
They filed their comment in three pending FCC proceedings: In
the Matter of Review of the Section 251 Unbundling Obligations
of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (CC Docket No. 01-339),
In the Matter of Review of Regulatory Requirements for
Incumbent LEC Broadband Telecommunications Services (CC Docket
No. 01-337), and In the Matter of Appropriate Framework for
Broadband Access to the Internet Over Wireline Facilities (CC
Docket No. 02-33). |
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| More News |
5/6. The U.S.
Court of Appeals (7thCir) issued its opinion
in In
re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Litigation, a
Sherman Act price fixing case involving prescription drugs.
Plaintiffs are retail sellers of prescription drugs. The
defendants/ appellees are their suppliers. The District Court
granted summary judgment to defendants. The Appeals Court
affirmed.
5/6. The U.S.
Court of Appeals (9thCir) issued its opinion
[PDF] in Barcamerica
v. Tyfield Importers, a trademark case
involving abandonment by naked licensing. This is a dispute
over who may use the "Leonardo Da Vinci" trademark
for wines. Barcamerica registered the mark with the USPTO. It
later sued Tyfield and others for trademark infringement.
However, Barcamerica had engaged in naked licensing of the
mark. That is, it failed to exercise adequate quality control
over the licensees, with the trademark ceasing to function as
a symbol of quality and controlled source. The District Court
thus ruled that the mark had been abandoned. The Appeals Court
affirmed.
5/6. Openwave and IBM announced "a 10-year
alliance". See, IBM release.
5/2. The U.S.
District Court (NDCal) sentenced Roger Ver to 10 months in
prison for selling explosives without a license over the eBay
auction web site, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 842(a)(1). He
was also sentenced for illegally storing explosives in a
residential apartment in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 842(j), and
for mailing injurious articles through the U.S. Postal Service
in violation 18 U.S.C. § 1716. See, USAO
release. |
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| Tuesday, May 7 |
The House will meet at 12:30 PM for morning hour and at 2:00
PM for legislative business. No votes are expected before 6:30
PM. The House will consider a number of measures under
suspension of the rules.
The Supreme Court is on recess until May 13.
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. The Association
for Competitive Technology will host a series of panel
discussions on technology issues. The panels are as follows.
10:00 AM: E-Commerce and the Revenge of the Middleman; 11:00
AM: International Trade and the IT Industry; 1:00 PM: Pitfalls
of Regulating Technology. 2:00 PM: Antitrust Enforcement and
Merger Approvals in the IT industry; and 3:00 PM: How to make
Fiscal Policy Friendly to Small Business. Location: Room HC-8,
U.S. Capitol.
The Council of
the Americas will hold a three day conference titled
"New Realities in the Hemisphere" on May 5-7. On May
7 at 9:00 AM Sen. Max
Baucus (D-MT) will speak. At 11:45 USTR Robert
Zoellick will speak. See, agenda
[PDF]. For more information, call 202 639-0724. Location: Loy
Henderson Conference Room, State Dept., 2201 C Street, NW.
POSTPONED. 9:30
AM. The Senate
Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the Memorandum of
Agreement between the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice's
(DOJ) Antitrust Division
regarding division of responsibility for merger reviews. Press
contact: Andy Davis 224-6654.
10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON. Rep.
Sander Levin (D-MI), the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means
Committee's Subcommittee on Trade will speak at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS) on trade promotion
authority. Location: CSIS, B-1 Conference Level, 1800 K
Street, NW.
12:00 NOON. The Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus
will host a luncheon. The speaker will be Marty Cooper,
inventor of the portable cellular telephone and CEO or
ArrayComm. RSVP to rsvp
@netcaucus.org or Danielle Wiblemo at 202 638-4370.
Location: Reserve Officers Assoc.
1:30 to 3:30 PM. The State
Department's International Telecommunication Advisory
Committee, Radiocommunication Sector (ITAC-R) will hold a
meeting. The ITAC advises the State Department on policy,
technical and operational issues with respect to the
International Telecommunication Union. This meeting will
address preparations for the ITU-R World Radiocommunication
Conference 2003 (WRC-03). See, notice
in Federal Register. Location: State Dept., Dean Acheson
Auditorium.
4:00 PM. Rep.
Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) and others will hold press
conference to announce the introduction of a bill to
reauthorize the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Location: Room 2318, Rayburn Building. |
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| Wednesday, May 8 |
The House will meet at 10:00 AM for legislative business.
9:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The Telecommunications Service Priority
System Oversight Committee will meet. See, notice
in Federal Register. Location: NCS conference room, 2nd floor,
701 South Court House Road, Arlington, VA.
9:30 AM. The Senate
Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing to
examine infrastructure security, focusing on private public
information sharing. Location: Room 342, Dirksen Building.
10:00 AM. The House
Judiciary Committee will hold a meeting to mark up several
bills, including HR
3482, the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001 and HR
3215, the Combatting Illegal Gambling Reform and
Modernization Act. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.
10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The Federal
Communications Bar Association's International Practice
Committee will host a roundtable discussion with David
Gross, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International
Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of
State. RSVP to Maggie McBride at 202 719-7101. Location: Wiley Rein & Fielding, 1750
K Street, NW.
10:00 AM. The Senate
Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing regarding reform
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of
Justice. See, notice.
Press contact: Mimi Devlin at 202 224-9437. Location: Room
226, Dirksen Building.
12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM. Marybeth
Peters, Register of Copyrights, will speak at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS). For more information,
contact Joelle Laszlo at 202 775-3175 or jlaszlo @csis.org.
Location: 4th Floor Conference Room, CSIS, 1800 K St NW.
1:00 PM. Rep. Cliff
Stearns (R-FL), Chairman of the House Commerce Committee's
Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade & Consumer Protection, and
others, will hold a press conference to announce the
introduction of information privacy legislation.
Location: H-321, House Radio and TV Gallery, Capitol.
Extended deadline to submit comments to the FCC in its
proceeding titled "In the Matter of Rules and Policies
Concerning Multiple Ownership of Radio Broadcast Stations in
Local Markets Definition of Radio Markets". See, FCC
release [PDF]. |
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| Thursday, May 9 |
The House will meet at 10:00 AM for legislative business.
10:00 AM. The House
Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime will meeting
to conduct a hearing on, and to mark up, HR
4623, the Child Obscenity and Pormography Prevention Act
of 2002. Webcast. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.
10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The House Science Committee's
Subcommittee on Research will hold a hearing on the National
Science Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2002. Press
contact: Heidi Tringe Heidi.Tringe
@mail.house.gov or 202 225-4275. Webcast. Location: Room
2318, Rayburn Building.
10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The House Science Committee's
Subcommittee on Research will meet to mark up HR 3130,
the Technology Talent Act of 2001 (immediately
following the hearing on the NSF reauthorization bill). This
bill would authorized grants to be awarded on a competitive
basis to institutions of higher education to increase the
number of students studying and receiving associates or
bachelor's degrees in science, mathematics, engineering, and
technology. Press contact: Heidi Tringe Heidi.Tringe
@mail.house.gov or 202 225-4275. Webcast. Location: Room
2318, Rayburn Building.
2:00 PM. The Senate
Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on pending
judicial nominations. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.
2:00 PM. The House
Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Select Revenue
Measures will hold another hearing on the Extraterritorial
Income Regime. Location: Room 1100, Longworth Building.
Deadline to pre-register to attend the National Institute of Standards
and Technology's (NIST) Advanced
Technology Program (ATP) Advisory Committee meeting on May
14. The agenda includes a discussion on universities and
R&D technology issues, a presentation on In-Q-Tel (the CIA's
Silicon Valley venture capital group), an update on the ATP
competition, and a presentation on the ATP Computer Based
Software Focus Program. Submit your name, time of arrival,
e-mail address and phone number to Carolyn Stull at carolyn.stull @nist.gov
or 301 975-5607. See, notice
in Federal Register. |
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| Friday, May 10 |
The House will meet at 9:00 AM for legislative business. No
votes are expected after 2:00 PM.
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. The New
America Foundation and Public Knowledge
will co-host a conference titled "Protecting the
Information Commons: Asserting the Public Interest In
Copyright Law and Digital Infrastructure". The scheduled
speakers include Rep.
Rick Boucher (D-VA). RSVP to Tina Sherman at 202 986-2700
or sherman
@newamerica.net. Location: National Guard Association, One
Massachusetts Avenue NW.
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. The Copyright
Office (CO) will hold "a public roundtable discussion
concerning issues raised in the course of an ongoing
rulemaking proceeding to adopt requirements for giving
copyright owners reasonable notice of the use of their works
for sound recordings under the section 114 and 112 statutory
licenses and for how records of such use shall be kept and
made available to copyright owners." See, notice
in Federal Register. Requests to attend or participate must be
submitted by close of business on Monday, May 6, 2002.
Location: Room LM620 (Dining Room A), James Madison Memorial
Building, First and Independence Avenue, SE.
9:30 AM. The U.S.
Court of Appeals (DCCir) will hear oral argument in AT&T
v. FCC, No. 01-1467, and Verizon v. FCC, No.
01-1371. Judges Ginsburg, Randolph and Tatel will preside.
Location: 333 Constitution Ave. NW.
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM. The Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) will hold an event titled
"Investor Summit" which will also be webcast. See, SEC release.
Location: WOD Room, basement, SEC, 450 5th Street NW.
10:00 AM. The U.S.
Court of Appeals (FedCir) will hear oral argument in ULead
Systems v. Lex Computer, No. 01-1320, an appeal from the U.S. District Court
(CDCal). The lower court held that U.S.
Patent No. 4,538,188 is unenforceable due to the owner's
inequitable conduct in fraudulently paying reduced small
entity maintenance fees to the USPTO when it
was not a small entity. Location: LaFayette Square, at 717
Madison Place, NW.
11:30 AM. The American
Electronics Association (AEA) will hold a press briefing
regarding the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) proposal to
impose payroll taxes on certain broad based stock options
beginning January 1, 2003. To participate by telephone, call
703 871-3016. See, AEA
notice. RSVP to Deanna Keim at 202 289-6700 or djkeim @abcstaff.org.
Location: AEA, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 6th Floor. (The
entrance is on Indiana Ave. between 6th and 7th Streets.)
12:15 PM. The The FCBA's
Wireless Committee will host a luncheon.
1:00 PM. The House
Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications
and the Internet will hold a field hearing titled
"Chatting On Line: A Dangerous Proposition for
Children." Rep.
Fred Upton (R-MI) will preside. Press contact: Ken Johnson
or Jon Tripp at 202-225-5735. Location: Kalamazoo Central High
School, Kalamazoo, Michigan. |
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