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On your local oldies radio station, when you hear Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons’ hit song “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night),” neither Frankie Valli nor The Four Seasons receive any income from the broadcast of their performance.

President Obama is proposing a radical restructuring of how the federal government taxes money earned and held by U.

In 1990, Congress substantially increased the fees associated with obtaining and maintaining patents and trademarks.

With the extraordinary turbulence of the global markets, the Obama Administration’s emphasis on stimulating the U.S. economy and creating U.S. jobs, and the increasing recognition from congressional appropriators that a strong patent system is critical to an innovation-friendly government, it is more important than ever that Congress pass a permanent legislative solution to the damaging practice of taxing innovation by diverting user fees away from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Copyright is actually a bundle of rights--rights that do not get treated equally. Technological convergence has highlighted the omission of equal treatment for performance rights. Music performers should be remunerated for the use of their work, especially as others are profiting from building a business around those same creations.

It appears that Democrats in Congress have decided to use the budget reconciliation process—which allows the Senate to approve legislation with 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to quash a filibuster—in their effort to pass sweeping health care reform legislation.

Intellectual property, the driver and economic cornerstone of the U.

We have been warning that the budget deficit being pushed through by this administration and Democratic-led Congress is unfathomable.

We’re firm believers that the 25-year economic expansion that started in 1982 and lasted through 2007 was due in large part to adoption of policies that rewarded investment capital, by encouraging its formation, incentivizing its deployment, and resisting the devaluation of inflation.

“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with another … a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.