Senator Mark Warner To Be Keynote Speaker at D.C. Event FOR RELEASE: Oct. 14, 2011 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., Oct. 14, 2011 – The Media Institute will honor FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at its annual Friends & Benefactors Awards Banquet Oct. 18 [...]
FOR RELEASE: Aug. 31, 2011 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., Aug. 31, 2011 – Despite its informal slogan, “Don’t be evil,” Google has shown a willingness to exercise its dominant position in online search to the detriment of media companies, publishers, and journalists. Without some type of government intervention, [...]
Filed a white paper with the Federal Trade Commission stating that Google's dominance of the media economy could foreclose competition in key industry segments including media, search, online, and mobile. Google has shown a pattern of aggregating the content of others for its own gain and then foreclosing competitors from that same aggregated content, [...]
Senator Mark Warner To Deliver Keynote Remarks at Oct. 18 Event FOR RELEASE: Aug. 18, 2011 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., Aug. 18, 2011 – The Media Institute will bestow awards on FCC Commissioner Robert M. McDowell and AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at its annual Friends & Benefactors Awards [...]
FOR RELEASE: June 27, 2011 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., June 27, 2011 – Patrick Maines, president of The Media Institute, issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association: The Media Institute applauds the Supreme Court's decision today [...]
FOR RELEASE: May 2, 2011 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., May 2, 2011 – The concept that the public owns the airwaves – particularly as it concerns the authority and mission of the FCC – is “a mischievous notion that has been misused as a rationalization for government regulation,” [...]
FOR RELEASE: December 16, 2010 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Washington, Dec. 16, 2010 – Richard M. Bates of The Walt Disney Company was elected to the Board of Trustees of The Media Institute at the board’s annual meeting today in Washington. Bates is senior vice president of government relations for [...]
Joined with 22 other organizations in an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Viacom v. YouTube. The brief urges the court to overturn a district court decision that would immunize an Internet business that intentionally relies on stolen copyrighted content to build its audience. The brief argues [...]
Groups and Schools Around Country Will Recognize Free Speech and Press FOR RELEASE: >October 14, 2010 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., Oct. 14, 2010 – National Freedom of Speech Week (NFSW) is set to kick off next Monday, Oct. 18, and will run through Sunday, Oct. 24. A wide [...]
Joined with The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, regarding a California law that would limit minors’ access to violent video games (Schwarzenegger and Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association and Entertainment Software Association). The brief argued that the California act is a [...]