April 2008
4 posts
New orphan works bills introduced
Yesterday bills were introduced in the House (PDF) and the Senate (PDF) addressing the orphan works copyright issue about which I’ve written many times before. Alex Curtis has a great write-up of the bills over at the Public Knowledge blog.
An orphan work is a work under copyright the owner of which cannot be located so that a potential re-user cannot ask for permission to use or license...
Just sell off the D block?
Chairman Martin and his FCC colleagues testified today before the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee on the just-completed 700 MHz spectrum auction. At the top of the agenda was the failed D Block auction. According to Martin, all options are on the table. According to the WSJ, however, some have definite ideas for the block:
Some Republican members on...
Another digital transition? Cuban says yes
The always provocative Mark Cuban has an interesting post on his blog today. He writes:
There is a dirty little secret in the cable industry. Its being kept secret not by the cable distributors, but by the big cable networks. End this practice and the United States goes from being 3rd world by international broadband standards, to top of the charts and exemplary. …
What is the dirty little...
I hate to say I told you so, but...
Although I’m not sure their deal with BitTorrent Inc. means much (since BT Inc. is a company, not the protocol), I’m glad to see Comcast finally embracing a network management scheme that is reasonable, transparent, and easy to understand:
“In the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until...
