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  Howard Berman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howard Lawrence Berman (born April 15, 1941), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1983, representing the 28th District of California (map).
He was born in Los Angeles, California, was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was a lawyer and a member of the California Assembly before entering the House.
In 1996 Berman voted for the Immigration in the Natural Interest Act of 1995, which cracked down on illegal immigration, also in that same year he voted to phase out many farm subsidy programs put into place by the administration of President Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt as part of the New Deal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Berman   (296 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Howard Berman
Berman is also well known in California for his leadership in the so-called "Berman-Waxman machine" and for his legislative prowess in the House.
Howard Berman (D-Calif. the author of the 1988 congressional "Berman amendment" prohibiting the government from embargoing "any information or informational materials," including publishing, told The Scientist last night from his Van Nuys office that he hasn't yet advised the publishers what do to with their lawsuit because he hasn't seen the new ruling.
Howard Berman, D-Van Nuys, is from across the aisle, but the two have bonded on the long weekly flights home to California and enjoy a bipartisan friendship not unlike the famous one between liberal Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Howard-Berman   (3096 words)

  
 Howard Lawrence Berman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Howard L. Berman was born in Los Angeles, and resides in North Hollywood, Calif. He graduated from Los Angeles' Hamilton High School in 1959.
Howard Berman was elected to the U.S. House in 1982 with 60 percent of the vote, defeating Republican Hal Phillips.
Berman was re-elected to five consecutive terms, defeating Republican Roy Dahlson in 1990 with 61 percent of the vote and Republican Gary Forsch in 1992 with 61 percent of the vote.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/politics/election/2002nov/bios/hca28dem.dtl&type=printable   (644 words)

  
 Comments on the Berman P2P Bill H.R. 5211 (August 2, 2002)
On July 25, 2002, Representative Howard Berman (D-Cal.) introduced a bill, H.R. in the House of Representatives that would give copyright owners the right to violate the law in their efforts to stop the unauthorized circulation of their works on peer-to-peer networks.
Berman claims that his proposal is narrowly tailored and intended to give copyright owners relief from "anti-hacking" laws as they try to stop copyright infringement on P2P networks.
The Berman P2P Bill grants copyright owners and their agents the right to break any law, state or federal, civil or criminal, in the course of "disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise impairing" the availability of his or her copyrighted works on a public peer-to-peer (P2P) file trading network.
www.eff.org /IP/P2P/20020802_eff_berman_p2p_bill.html   (733 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Howard Berman
Howard Berman, D-Calif. said the tourism industry as well as the fruit and vegetable industries would be devastated if no guest-worker program is available and employers have to verify the legality of workers.
Berman acknowledges that he was wrong in his own personal assessment of Hussein's weapons' capability, based both on what the Bush White House told him and from ``watching Saddam for 20 years and knowing what he had done.
Howard Berman's district had a growing Latino population that could produce a strong Democratic primary challenger unless maps were drawn to thwart that.
politics.surfwax.com /files/Howard_Berman_California.html   (3422 words)

  
 SHS EXecutive Advisory Board
Howard Berman is Vice Chairman of The Lifetime Healthcare Companies, a family of companies that provide health coverage and health-care services to more than 2 million New Yorkers.
Berman served as group vice president of the American Hospital Association and as president of the Hospital Research and Educational Trust.
Berman serves on the boards of directors for several regional organizations, including the Jewish Home of Rochester, the Greater Rochester Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Central New York Metropolitan Development Association.
healthmba.simon.rochester.edu /berman.html   (346 words)

  
 Story: Bill Would Change Business Method Patent Process, 10/3/00.
Howard Berman (D-CA) introduced HR 5364, the Business Methods Patent Improvement Act of 2000 on October 3.
Berman stated at a press conference on Tuesday morning, October 3, that he is not opposed to patents for business method inventions.
Berman and Boucher were asked about this at their press conference...
www.techlawjournal.com /intelpro/20001003.asp   (1088 words)

  
 Senate Aligned with America Hater (Rep. Howard Berman)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Berman: Chief Congressional Spokesman for the Mexican Conquest of Aztlan
When Howard Berman took to the floor of the House of Representatives to condemn HR 418, the bill that would stop the Mexican Matricula Consular nonsense, he continued a long tradition of fighting for the rights of Mexicans to conquer a large part of the United States.
Berman was on the stage for the June 10, 2000 rally for total amnesty.
www.americanpatrol.com /05-FEATURES/050215-BERMAN-US-HATER/050215_Feature.html   (114 words)

  
 Lyle Berman and Howard Greenbaum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Berman’s company derives all the economic benefit from the product he created; Greenbaum’s employer derives all the economic benefit from the product they bought.
The thinking of many in the poker world is that these guys stand to gain little or nothing by participating in the creation of something that might require them to give up some of their profits or control.
There are economies of scale, whereby functions currently performed in-house at their expense could be shifted to the association, particularly in light of the fact that many functions are redundantly performed at both places.
www.cardplayer.com /poker_magazine/archives/showarticle.php?a_id=14573   (1448 words)

  
 Story: House Judiciary Committee Passes E-SIGN Bill with Berman Amendment, 10/14/99.
Berman became the ranking minority member of the CIP Subcommittee at the beginning of the 106th Congress in January of this year.
In the end, the vote on the Berman amendment was made almost exclusively on partisan lines.
For example, after the roll had been called on the Berman amendment, it was apparent that its supporters were one vote short.
techlawjournal.com /internet/19991014.htm   (841 words)

  
 HRET - New Book on Nonprofit Governance
Berman has condensed years of experience as a member of and CEO reporting to nonprofit corporate boards into this useful guide.
Howard Berman is Vice Chairman of Lifetime Healthcare Companies, the parent company of Excellus, Inc. In April 2003 he retired from his post as CEO, a position he held since 1985.
Berman was the President of the Health Research and Educational Trust from 1983–85.
www.hospitalconnect.com /hret/publications/greatboard.html   (589 words)

  
 University at Buffalo Libraries - Law - Special Collections
Howard Berman had a deep understanding of the legal, historical, and cultural contexts within which indigenous peoples found themselves.
Howard was one of the earliest people in the world of American legal theory to understand what that meant - the comprehensive way he wrote about that, struggled for that, and went to court with that.
Howard knew what was in European libraries and he knew that international law and history did not start in New York City.
ublib.buffalo.edu /libraries/units/law/collections/berman.html   (3145 words)

  
 Global Gallery - Howard Berman - Artist Biography
At the suggestion of his speech therapist, at age 8 Howard was given his first camera, a polaroid.
As his speaking abilities greatly improved over the decades, Howard was able to convince people to pay him for his photographs.
Howard spent many years in college but is basically self-taught in photography.
www.globalgallery.com /artist.bio.asp?nm=howard+berman   (98 words)

  
 Story: House Subcommittee Passes Amended E-SIGN Bill, 10/7/99.
Howard Coble (R-NC) which differs from the Commerce Committee version on the preemption issue.
Howard Berman (D-CA), the ranking minority member of the CIP Subcommittee, said that the Coble amendment "makes substantial improvements in that legislation, although in my view, still not addressing a couple of critical issues." He also said that he was "quite stunned that the Commerce Committee would have reported that bill out."
Berman, however, insisted that a bill be passed promptly because there is a need for a federal bill to cover the transition until the states have adopted the UETA.
techlawjournal.com /internet/19991007.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Photo Gallery, Congressman Howard Berman And Attorney Carl Shusterman, U.S. Immigration, The Law Offices of Carl ...
Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) and immigration attorney Carl Shusterman share a laugh at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
Congressman Berman has been the key leader in the House of Representatives in preserving legal immigration to the U.S. He orchestrated the opposition to draconian cuts to legal immigration in the Immigration Subcommittee, the House Judiciary Committee and on the House floor.
Eight years later, on March 21, 1996, Shusterman watched from the Gallery as Congressman Berman led the forces which succeeded in "splitting the bill" in two, one pertaining to illegal immigration and the other to legal immigration.
www.shusterman.com /photo3.html   (213 words)

  
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Berman is positing that the entertainment industry is the horse and tech is the cart.
The only way that Berman's position makes sense is if the consolidation of the tech sector into an oligarchy is deemed a foregone conclusion and is, in fact, considered to be a Good Thing to be supported by government.
Berman's proposal is an unbalanced, uncompromising sop to the media industry and goes against the best interests of our polity.
www.politechbot.com /p-03708.html   (1739 words)

  
 Lawmakers: Keep your tunes to yourself | CNET News.com
Howard Coble of North Carolina and Howard Berman of California, who authored the draft, say their proposed changes to copyright law follow suggestions made last August by the Copyright Office.
In an unusual twist, Coble and Berman stressed in their letter to colleagues that their authorship of the draft bill does not necessarily "constitute an endorsement of its contents." Rep.
Last month, Berman said he would introduce a bill to let copyright owners, such as record labels or movie studios, launch technological attacks against file-swapping networks, where their wares are illegally traded.
news.com.com /2100-1023-943134.html   (1414 words)

  
 Attorney Howard Berman, Ervin, Cohen & Jessup LLP, Beverly Hills, California
Berman provides a broad range of Internet and technology legal services, including organizing and counseling Internet related businesses, domain name site matters (including trademark registration and disputes), web site and software development agreements, licensing of technology and other intellectual property, fulfillment agreements, linking agreements, executive employment agreements and employee confidentiality agreements.
Berman received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Southern California in 1986, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.
Berman also received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from USC in 1983, graduating Magna Cum Laude and receiving the Alpha Kappa Psi Scholarship Award and the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key Award for achieving the highest cumulative grade point average.
www.ecjlaw.com /Bio/HowardBerman.asp   (330 words)

  
 Meet Howard Berman: The Congressman Who Wasn't There   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On paper, it says that Howard Berman has been my congressman since he took the oath in 1983.
There are plenty of books on the subject by people far more respected and well-versed than I.) To that end, I contacted my congressman, Howard Berman, Democrat, this summer, to see if he could impeach the president, please.
Berman asking him to impeach the president, please.
www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/la_nuts/01016_meet_howard_berman_congressman_wasn_there.html   (1241 words)

  
 EdCone.com
A reader emails that Howard Berman is NOT running unopposed--the GOP candidate for California district 28 is David R. Hernandez.
Hey, Berman's only got 400 times as much money as he does.
One is that I overstated the scope of the powers granted to his corporate paymasters under the proposed bill, and the other is that I understated the recourse available to you when the big companies trample you.
radio.weblogs.com /0107946/2002/08/24.html   (429 words)

  
 The Backbone Cabinet - A Progressive Cabinet Roster
Berman is particularly well-known for his ability to form bipartisan coalitions.
Berman is a senior member of the International Relations Committee and the Judiciary Committee.
Berman is one of the most decent and principled members of Congress and has had a long-standing interest in foreign policy.
www.backbonecampaign.org /cabinet/nominee.cfm?ID=472   (733 words)

  
 Democrats Against Howard Berman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Representative Howard Berman (D-Van Nuys, CA) has been a sponsor of two pieces of heinous legislation that attempt to seriously undermine our Constitutional rights.
Berman, doing the bidding of his Big Media campaign contributors, wants to give his clients the right to commit a felony--to release computer viruses that can destroy your computer's operating system.
Berman, whose district includes North Hollywood, was a strong supporter of the contentious Digital Millenium Copyright Act and was the top Democrat on the House subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property when it passed.
www.slumdance.com /democratsagainstberman   (394 words)

  
 Lawmaker Tries To Foil Illegal File-Sharing
Berman's bill, to be introduced in the next several weeks, would attempt to minimize the illegal trading of copyrighted songs and other content on "peer-to-peer" (P2P) networks by permitting copyright holders to use technology against pirates.
Berman, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee's intellectual property and Internet panel, represents a California district adjacent to Burbank and Hollywood -- major capitals of the entertainment industry that have long clamored for better online piracy deterrents.
Howard Coble (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property subcommittee, said in an interview that he likes Berman's proposal, but said it could be "tweaked."
www.securityfocus.com /news/499   (556 words)

  
 ESD10 Materials - Block 2 - Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
When Berman's bill is passed I'll be allowed to break in to the pass-protected members' sections of Web sites and root people's corporate networks and home boxes whenever I have a 'reasonable suspicion' that The Register's copyrighted works might be getting passed around without permission.
In short, Berman's bill would effect a dramatic change to a whole fabric of laws, creating numerous holes where once-applicable criminal and civil penalties would then be impossible to impose.
Howard Berman, D-Mission Hills, whose campaign coffers are loaded with money from Disney and other entertainment companies, wants to confer on the entertainment cartel the legal right to hack PCs it believes are part of file-sharing networks.
msl1.mit.edu /ESD10/sslinks/links.php?cat=130   (4329 words)

  
 Hollywood hacking bill hits House | CNET News.com
Berman did not say what techniques he anticipated content owners would use.
Coble is the chairman of the House subcommittee on intellectual property, and Berman is the top Democrat on the panel.
Fritz Attaway, the MPAA's senior vice president for government relations, endorsed Berman's approach on Monday, stressing that law-abiding Internet users should not be concerned.
news.com.com /2100-1023-946316.html   (1155 words)

  
 Howard Berman - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Howard Berman - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Howard Berman contains research on
Howard Berman, External link, California politicians, 1941 births, U.S. Representatives from California, Members of the California State Assembly, American lawyers and Jewish Americans.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Howard_Berman   (150 words)

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