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Subject: RE: Pho: US Govt Proposes Sweeping Exclusive Rights
Regime for Internet
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:36:54 -0700
From: "Shumavon, Aram" <SAP@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Seth Johnson"
<seth.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<C-FIT_Community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<C-FIT_Release_Community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<fairuse-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<DMCA_Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<DMCA-Activists@xxxxxxx>,
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This is part of the at&t attempt to opt out of cable industry
restrictions on their 'ip tv service' while opting into cable
industry benefits for copyright law. Likely, their hope is to
hedge a loss on the legislative front with their cable offerring
here.
Essentially, they are setting themselves up for bailing on telco
legislative rewrite with this action, assuming it goes anywhere.
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Subject: [Random-bits] Bush proposes new "netcasting" regulations
for Internet
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 07:20:41 -0400
From: James Love <james.love@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: random-bits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
These are two blogs on the WIPO webcasting treaty. This week the
Bush Administration sent WIPO a new proposal, which is now called
"netcasting." While the issues and politics are complicated, it
is fair to say that AT&T has joined Yahoo and News Corp. in
pushing for the US to endorse a global treaty creating this new
type of internet regulation, which the US Congress has never even
considered. Jamie
This provides the detail of the US government's latest
submission.
http://www.cptech.org/blogs/wipocastingtreaty/2006/08/us-government-proposes-sweeping-new.html
Also, below is a short bit I posted on the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/bush-calls-for-regulation_b_26486.html
The Huffington Post
James Love
August 03, 2006
Bush Calls for Regulation of "Netcasting"
The Bush Administration is asking the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) for new global regulations on
"netcasting." What is "netcasting"? No one really knows.
According to this (http://
www.cptech.org/blogs/wipocastingtreaty/2006/08/us-government-proposes-
sweeping-new.html) recent US government submission to WIPO:
"netcasting" means the transmission by wire or wireless means
over a computer network, such as through Internet protocol or
any successor protocol . . . of sounds or of images or of
images and sounds or of the representation thereof . . .
consisting of . . . audio, visual or audiovisual content of
the type that can be carried by the program-carrying signal of
a broadcast or cablecast. . . "
This week's proposal by the Bush administration was the product
of an inter-agency review that included the US Patent and
Trademark Office, the US Department of Commerce's National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the
State Department, and the Library of Congress, plus others. But
it was really the product of a handful of lobbysts for big
corporations -- most prominent in this particular case --
Murdoch's News Corp (owner of Fox News and MySpace), Yahoo, and
AT&T.
The Bush Administration is expected to have public consultations
on this proposal this month. Let's hope people are reading the
federal register in August.
For more on this general issue, start here.
(http://www.cptech.org/ip/wipo/bt/index.html)
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