March 02 2007
HRRC PRAISES FAIR USE ACT
The today urged widespread support for H.R. 1201, the bipartisan Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (?Fair Use Act?), introduced today by Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA), John Doolittle (R-CA) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)>>>

April 25 2006
HRRC OPPOSES PROPOSED "PERFORM ACT"
Today the HRRC expressed its strong opposition to the "Perform Act" expected to be introduced by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).>>>

March 03 2006
HRRC - OPPOSE H.R. 4861
Today the said it would strongly oppose H.R. 4861, which would require the Federal Communications Commission to impose anti-consumer copy control restrictions on in-home, private, personal, and lawful recording from digital radio services.>>>

September 23 2005
HRRC Opposes RIAA Effort
The HRRC today expressed its opposition to an effort by the recording industry to revive a vague and ill-considered proposal that would hobble new digital radios with anti-recording and "place-shifting" provisions aimed at private, noncommercial home use.>>>

June 27 2005
HRRC CONCERNED OVER GROKSTER "INDUCEMENT" RULE, ENCOURAGED ON BETAMAX AND HOME TAPING
The today said it was encouraged that the Supreme Court?s opinion in the Grokster case today preserved the Betamax doctrine with respect to both the introduction of new technologies and the legality of ordinary consumer practices. It expressed the hope that today?s decision will be interpreted in the lower courts as reaching only specific acts of marketing as were at issue in this case, rather than as going more generally to services and options offered interactively to consumers. HRRC Chairman Gary Shapiro said today.>>>