Blair Levin Hints at National Broadband Plan

Posted by Richard Bennett

Amy Schatz of the WSJ joined in the questioning of Blair Levin on this week’s installment of The Communicators. Here’s an interesting part of her story: Mr. Levin also dismissed criticisms last week from public interest groups unhappy the plan may not propose some ideas for encouraging competition, such as rules that would require Internet [...]

The Communicators on Piracy

Posted by Richard Bennett

Thursday’s edition of The Communicators on C-Span featured MPAA CEO Dan Glickman and Washington Internet Daily editor Greg Piper talking about digital piracy. There’s a segment beginning 9 minutes in on the recent ITIF report on stopping piracy. It’s very good to see people paying attention to the financial side of piracy. FacebookTwitterDiggItTechnoratiDel.icio.us

Steal These Policies

Posted by Richard Bennett

ITIF released a report today on digital piracy, Steal These Policies: Strategies for Reducing Digital Piracy co-authored by Dan Castro, Scott Andes, and yours truly. Here’s the blurb: It is time for the U.S. government to take global theft of U.S. intellectual property, especially digital content, much more seriously. A new ITIF report finds that [...]

Speech, Democracy, and Open Internet Regulations

Posted by Richard Bennett

The video of the FCC workshop on Speech, Democratic Engagement, and the Open Internet is up on the FCC’s web site already. I can’t say there was much enlightening dialog in this event; it was pretty much the same tired old rhetoric we’ve heard for the last four years on the subject, with some exceptions. [...]

Free Speech for Me, But When it Comes to Thee I Need to Think About It

Posted by Richard Bennett

The FCC will hold an upcoming workshop on free speech and net neutrality regulations that features a really interesting array of speakers: Michele Combs from the Christian Coalition; Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit; Jonathan Moore, Rowdy Orbit; Ruth Livier, YLSE; ; Garlin Gilchrist, Center for Community Change; Bob Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine; Jack Balkin, Yale Law School; [...]

What’s Cooking in Europe

Posted by Richard Bennett

I’ve been spending some time in Europe recently. A couple of weeks ago I took part in a roundtable at the Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology in Germany on open spectrum that combined one of most interesting gatherings of people of different viewpoints and ranges of expertise ever assembled in one setting. The group included a [...]