Legislative Affairs

Testimony in support of legislation to protect the natural secondary markets for tickets against those who seek to extinguish or monopolize them.

IPI urges the Tennessee legislature to reject a proposal that would radically increase the pole attachment fee charged to broadband providers because it would raise the cost and slow the spread of broadband in Tennessee.

IPI urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do its part to speed the transition from the legacy PSTN to IP-based networks by allowing test migrations in specific geographic areas, and by reforming several other archaic regulations.

Believers in free markets seek to reduce, rather than increase, the government’s role in markets and price-setting whenever possible. Accordingly, we respectfully write to express our grave concerns about H.R. 6480, the misnamed “Internet Radio Fairness Act of 2012.”

IPI reminds New Zealand that its proposed plain packaging regulation for tobacco products violates existing WTO rules and the Paris Convention, reflects an incomplete understanding of the value and importance of trademarks, sets a harmful precedent which could be extended to other types of products, and will inevitably lead to an increase in counterfeit products.