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The portion of the conference that I attended centered on the issue of “mapping” out the post-broadcast world. I also Twittered on the conference, and they are visible in the right-hand column of the blog.

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We are on the second panel at the patents, innovation and antitrust conference.
Here is the line-up:

Panel II: Patents as Property Rights
“Removing Property from Intellectual Property and (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition”
F. Scott Kieff, Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis […]

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Over at IP Democracy, Cynthia Brumfield has this to say about BroadbandCensus.com:
BroadbandCensus is coming online at the right time. As Drew notes in his blog post announcing the new site, a lot of states are trying to collect their own data and legislation is moving in both the House and Senate to collect better […]

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By Drew Clark
 
Dominance in the broadband market is a battle of both technology and politics. Right now Comcast, America’s leading cable company, is losing on both counts.
 
Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen emerged from the Federal Communications Commission’s hearing on Internet practices in Cambridge, Mass., as unable to defend himself and his company against charges […]

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –  Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, is right now facing harsh scrutiny at the FCC’s hearing on Internet management practices today.
David Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast, just concluded his testimony at the FCC’s remote hearing at Harvard Law School here.
Cohen did not defend the “throttling” of Internet traffic passing through BitTorrent’s […]

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said today that broadband providers need to “provide transparency” about the speeds, service and prices that they are offering to consumers.
 

Martin, speaking after Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., headlined the FCC’s monthly meeting here today at Harvard Law School, said the FCC’s four principles on Net […]

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — I’ll be live-blogging today from the Federal Communications Commission hearing — on “network management” of the Internet — here in Cambridge, Mass. The hearing has just begun, with remarks by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
Ed Markey just gave one of […]

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We’ve put the speed test live at BroadbandCensus.com. To access the speed test, click on the “Take the Census” button; after doing so, you’ll have the opportunity to test the download and uploads speeds that your broadband provider offers. And then, you’ll be comparing them against what your broadband provider has promised you and others.
We’ll […]

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In another article about the BroadbandCensus.com, in DSL Reports, Karl Bode gives a little appropriate historical background to the quest for better information about broadband in the United States:
Back in 2006, we interviewed Drew Clark of the Center For Public Integrity, an organization that’s trying to map the real state of media ownership and broadband […]

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By Drew Clark
Comcast’s decision to limit Internet traffic from the peer-to-peer software BitTorrent would be against the law if Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama had his way, an aide to the Democratic Senator said Thursday.
In a conference call organized by the campaign for Sen. Obama, D-Ill., high-profile technology experts Lawrence Lessig, Beth Noveck and Julius […]

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Photos from the Federal Communications Commission’s hearing on localism in the media last week, as well as the protest outside the agency.

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By Drew Clark
Comcast’s terms of service and other consumer broadband service documents make no mention of any restrictions on the use of “peer-to-peer” applications like BitTorrent, or of any Internet network management.
AT&T and Time Warner Cable, two of the other big broadband providers, […]

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On Monday, the Supreme Court turned back another antitrust lawsuit against the Bell companies. TelecomTV, a British Web site for “telecoms executives,” interviewed me on the case.

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Many in the press (NYT, AP) are commenting this morning about on how Google on Monday encouraged the Federal Communications Commission to design their forthcoming auction of radio-frequencies to take advantage of real-time airwaves auctions. It’s one more bit of news emerging from the 700 Megahertz (MHz) auction, which the FCC must begin before January […]

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I’ve just posted a rough-and-ready transcript (my own) of the May 9, 2007, roundtable at the U.S. Copyright Office concerning the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations. As the transcript is admittedly imperfect, it is not for quotation. However, I encourage distribution of this link for organizations and individuals interesting […]

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