Darrell Issa: Last News

Darrell Issa Guest Columnist Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet represents California’s 48th Congressional District. Later today on the Nashville, TN campus of Belmont University, I’ll convene a field hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. The hearing won’t just take place in Music City, USA but five years after Congress achieved that rarest of things: A consensus solution that recognized the rights of musical artists and created a way they could be compensated fairly by publishers. It may be hard for some to believe, but at the time we crafted this legislation, the music industry and other content owners were being crushed by widespread piracy and an inability to monetize the value of musical creativity.

Lauren Coates “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu will be honored with the Motion Picture Association’s 2025 Creator Award. Chu will be presented with the kudo at the MPA’s fourth annual awards program, which will also feature 2025 Industry Champion Awards presented to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), Sen.

U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (Dem-CA) has introduced H.R. 791, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (or FADPA), to prevent foreign-run piracy sites from exploiting loopholes in U.S. law. The Act sets site-blocking laws that require U.S. internet providers to make “a good faith effort” to disable access to pirate websites.

EXCLUSIVE: Lainey Wilson will be among the witnesses who will testify at a Los Angeles field hearing on the use of artificial intelligence to replicate artists’ voices and likenesses.

Amazon has resumed political contributions to lawmakers who voted to object to the 2020 electoral vote count on January 6th, 2021, the day that Donald Trump supporters attacked the Capitol in an effort to block the results that would make Joe Biden the winner of the presidency.