Bob Goodlatte
Summary
Robert William "Bob" Goodlatte (pronounced /ˈɡʊdlt/; born September 22, 1952) is a Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia. He serves as the congressman for the 6th District, which is based in Roanoke and also includes Lynchburg, Harrisonburg and Staunton.Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Goodlatte received a B.A. in political science from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1974. He also holds a Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, which he earned in 1977. Goodlatte was an attorney in private practice in his early professional career before becoming a staff aide for 6th District congressman M. Caldwell Butler from 1977 to 1979.After Butler's successor, Democrat Jim Olin, opted not to run for reelection in 1992, Goodlatte won the Republican nomination and was elected in November with 60 percent of the vote.
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Obama Signs Video Sharing Bill
President Obama signed a bill Thursday that frees Netflix to launch in the U. S. a feature that lets users automatically broadcast on Facebook what movies and TV shows they're watching. Netflix has already launched the feature in other countries.
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Patent Trolls Get Worked Over at CES
Last year, it was SOPA that rallied the Internet community. This year it may well be patent trolls, companies whose sole business is to buy up patents and then go after companies for patent infringement, costing those companies millions of dollars in fees in order to avoid paying even more to defend themselves in court.
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House Passes Video Sharing Bill
A bill that will allow consumers to share on social media what movies or TV shows they watched passed the House of Representatives Tuesday.
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Take Me to Your House Committee Leader
Now that the election is over, the GOP-controlled House is moving fast to line up its leadership for the 113th Congress beginning in January. Below are the lawmakers that will be calling the shots on policy impacting media, advertising and technology businesses. Rep. Fred Upton (Mich. ) Chairman, Energy and Commerce Once again, Upton was selected by his colleagues to serve as the chairman of the Energy & Commerce.
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Lawmakers Ponder Disparity in Internet Radio Fairness Act
A bill to lower music performance royalties for Internet radio is probably dead on arrival in Congress unless traditional broadcasters that have never paid a penny to musicians are asked to pay up.
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Netflix says Congress can help bring Facebook app to U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Netflix Inc on Tuesday urged a panel of senators to support legislation that it said would allow the company's U. S. users to share information on Facebook about the TV shows and movies they are watching through Netflix's service.
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Alexander Howard: What You Need to Know About the Stop Online Piracy Act in 2012
A colleague asked me today for a crash course on the "Stop Online Privacy Act" (SOPA). I sent him my feature at the O'Reilly Radar, where I wrote about how Congress is considering anti-piracy bills that could cripple Internet industries and harm digital innovation. The thing is, that post is about 6,000 words long and is now a month out of date.
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Is the Government Trying to Kill the Internet?
New legislation proposed today raises all kinds of demons and specters that have nothing to do with Halloween. The STOP Online Piracy Act, introduced Wednesday by leaders of the House Judiciary Committee and a companion to the Senate Judiciary Committee's proposed Protect IP Act, instantly ignited heated arguments both for and against.
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House Online Piracy Bill Faces Uproar from Internet Community
The House version of the PROTECT IP bill, legislation aimed at shutting down rogue websites, got a big reception on the Hill in advance of its introduction late Wednesday. But it may not be the kind of reception that Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Tex. and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wants.
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Lawmakers ask advertisers for Web-piracy crackdown
Congress doesn't appear to be letting up on Web piracy. A group of Congress members asks the Interactive Advertising Bureau and two other ad groups to boost efforts to fight copyright violations.
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