Internet Association Urges House Judiciary 'Listening Tour' Session in Silicon Valley
The Internet Association invited the House Judiciary Committee to hold a roundtable discussion in the San Francisco Bay area or Silicon Valley as part of the committee's planned Copyright Act review “listening tour.” House Judiciary is set to begin the…
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listening tour Sept. 22 with a session in Nashville targeted at gathering feedback from music industry stakeholders (see 1509100041). San Francisco and Silicon Valley “are just as much the center of copyright as Nashville and Hollywood have been for decades,” IA said in a Tuesday letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and ranking member John Conyers, D-Mich. “This is home to the leading Internet companies -- the global leaders of legal content distribution and content creation.” IA said its members include Amazon, Google and Netflix. An industry lobbyist told us few additional details on House Judiciary's plans for the listening tour are available, but it's likely that the committee will also hold roundtables in Los Angeles and New York to accommodate large groups of stakeholders in those areas. House Judiciary said it will announce further sessions later.