Today, at the annual MacWorld conference in San Francisco, Apple Inc. senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Shiller, announced that by the end of this quarter, the iTunes Store's entire catalog of digital music will be sold without Digital Rights Management (DRM). …
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Apple Ditches FairPlay, Death Knell Rings For Music DRM
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FCC Reform: No longer If, But When
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1927Yesterday’s Public Knowledge - Silicon Flatirons conference entitled “Reforming the Federal Communications Commission” brought together former Chairmen, Commissioners and staff members of the agency, along with other experts. They provided perspectives on the agency and how it has operated in the past, how it operates currently, and how it might operate in the future. …
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FCC Reform Conference
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1926This is my first blog entry here, although some readers may have seen my personal blog on US spectrum issues: SpectrumTalk. I was a speaker at today’s Reforming the FCC conference. I am retired from FCC where I worked almost 25 years in the spectrum policy area and now am an independent consultant on complex spectrum policy issues for innovative technologies. …
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pureinformation.org
http://pureinformation.orgs InFormation: Google and Fair Use Coyle’s InFormation: Google Giveth…and Taketh Away Coyle’s InFormation: More on Google/AAP Coyle’s InFormation: Google/AAP Settlement Public Knowledge: Google Book Search and Orphan Works Public Knowledge: Google Book Search Lawsuit Settled, Fair Use Questions Remain: Settlement proposes Book Rights Registry Peter Brantley: GBS is not a Bookstore Peter Brantley: Class Action Monopoly Peter Brantley: Waking up to books in Richmond Peter Brantley: Settle for Profit or Distribution Boston.com: Google vs. the libraries
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Let's Make Sure the Alabama Broadband Initiative Benefits Consumers
http://www.LeftInAlabama.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3213In fact, the ConnectKentucky effort was so successful (it claims) that the organization transformed itself into ConnectedNation and is now based in Washington, where it lobbies for broadband legislation and, according to Art Brodsky of Public Knowledge, also works to protect the business position of phone and cable providers. Agriculture Commissioner, Ron Sparks, a member of the Broadband Initiative committee, expressed concern about using ConnectKentucky as a model:
9 hours ago in Left In Alabama Connecting Progressive Voices in Alabama Politics by mooncat2 · Authority: 92 -
Studios Lose a Round on Selectable Output Control; So Do Consumers
http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/2008/12/studios-l...consumers to choose different STBs? And it's not really the argument that the "consumer groups" (read "copyleft") make. Rather, they simply oppose giving "control" to their opponents in the entertainment industry. As the EFF explained in announcing its opposition to the MPAA petition: The MPAA's goal here seems clear: Increase its members' control over how you choose to watch their material. As the opposition we joined puts it, "Granting the waiver would put MPAA member companies on the path to controlling what
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Book Scanning Continues
http://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2009/01/book-scanning-co...Good article in the NYTimes on Google book search. The value of building a complete digital library. A settlement in October with authors and publishers has cleared the way for continuation of the project. Press release. Microsoft has left the large scale book scanning business, leaving Google as the lone participant. The article makes the case that the goal is to provide full access to books
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Book review of 'Viral Spiral'
http://www.socialmedia.biz/2009/01/book-review-of.htmlwe all benefit when we're free to build upon others' works — plays in the massive upheaval now taking place in media, business and politics. Bollier is perfectly suited to assay this landscape as the editor of OntheCommons.org and co-founder of Public Knowledge
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SpringBoardMedia
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SpectrumTalk
http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.comrequired to notify wireless mic users to vacate - but not giving the slightest hint how to find this unlicensed and lawless crowd; and recently A coalition including Alcatel-Lucent, APCO, AT, CTIA, Motorola, NENA, PISC, Qualcomm, and Verizon Wireless wrote FCC on this issue. The coalition letter urges "the Commission to take swift action to ensure that the use of low power auxiliary stations (e.g., wireless microphone systems) in the 700 MHz band does not threaten the future use of important spectrum that is being made availab
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Mikey Wally
http://mikeywally.wordpress.comPublic Knowledge
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Michigan Telephone, VoIP and Broadband blog
http://michigantelephone.wordpress.comArt Brodsky - Public Knowledge
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