Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
The net neutrality fight is on, as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s proposal for new rules moved on to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Now, the two sides are digging in: AT&T, telcos, and unions on one side; Google and content providers on the other.
I tend to favor protecting end-to-end in the Internet context, but I’m [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2009 by William McGeveran
New FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski threw down the network neutrality gauntlet in a speech today [PDF] [HTML] at the Brookings Institution, announcing his intention to start a formal process that would result in adoption of binding regulations. [There is good news and blog coverage from AP, Wired, and Washington Post.] His proposal would turn [...]
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Posted on March 14th, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
This is the write-up of a short talk I gave at the Filtering Workshop put on by the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales last week. I welcome comments, feedback, and criticism!
Filtering Workshop: Implications for ISPs (University of New South Wales, 4 March 2009)
My theme is that the proposed [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2009 by William McGeveran
A coalition of investors anchored by the New York City pension funds has filed resolutions for consideration at the 2009 annual shareholder meetings of major internet service providers, seeking more information about their network management practices and impacts on customer’s privacy and free expression. In particular, the group wants to know more about deep packet [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by William McGeveran
Ars Technica has reported that a chain reaction resulting from the death of Congressman Tom Lantos may mark a significant improvement in the line-up of chairmanships influential on Info/Law issues. (It may seem a bit ghoulish to speculate on the spoils right after the death of a great legislator like Lantos, a towering figure [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Derek Bambauer
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 12:15PM in Room 2249 at Wayne State University Law School, Prof. Jon Weinberg will debate Diane Katz, Director of Science, Environment, and Technology at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on net neutrality. The Wayne State Federalist Society is kindly sponsoring the debate, which includes free food! I’m moderating, so [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by William McGeveran
Activists and policy wonks who work with environmental issues take it for granted that private corporate activities and markets lie at the center of both the problems and the potential solutions (like this and this) to issues such as water pollution, global warming, and habitat destruction. Organizations like Ceres work with businesses to help [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2007 by William McGeveran
There is a great paper just posted on SSRN (hat tip to Larry Solum, of course) that consists entirely of a bloggy debate between info/law profs Christopher Yoo and Tim Wu about network neutrality. A version of their exchange originally appeared last spring as part of the late, lamented Legal Affairs Debate Club (indeed, [...]
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Posted on November 8th, 2006 by William McGeveran
Now that yesterday’s elections are over, punditry focuses on the impact of the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives and the increasingly likely (at this writing) Democratic majority in the Senate. Not much of it considers the impact on intellectual property and internet policy, though, does it? That’s why you come to [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Internet & Society, Network Neutrality, Patents, Voting
Posted on September 20th, 2006 by William McGeveran
Public Knowledge reports that today’s scheduled Judiciary Committee markup of the copyright bill I discussed here was cancelled. That’s the second time the committee has postponed consideration of the legislation, although last week the reason was purportedly lack of time.
Given the incredible list of pressing legislative business that is now stalled (including appropriations bills [...]
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