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House Judiciary leaders chastise USTR for IP 'safe harbor' language in USMCA

September 23, 2019 at 8:30 AM
The leaders of the House Judiciary Committee this week knocked U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer for using the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to enshrine a controversial U.S. law that protects internet service providers from financial liability if their platforms host unauthorized copyrighted content. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA), in a Sept. 17 letter , told Lighthizer USTR should not have negotiated language that mirrors Section 512 of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act because the...

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