It’s been a busy day in the world of tech law news:
- FCC to investigate “gating” role of middle-mile access lines (Ars)
- This might seem like a snoozer, but since companies pass their costs on to customers, I can’t see this oligopoly standing. Then again…
- EU taunts US: Net neutrality’s better here (Ars)
- Competition through regulation–what a novel idea.
- Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit (Wired)
- “The communications between the agencies and telecommunications companies regarding the immunity provisions of the proposed legislation have been regarded as intra-agency because the government and the companies have a common interest in the defense of the pending litigation and the communications regarding the immunity provisions concerned that common interest.â€
…good ruling against this shaky rationale by the District Court judge.
- “The communications between the agencies and telecommunications companies regarding the immunity provisions of the proposed legislation have been regarded as intra-agency because the government and the companies have a common interest in the defense of the pending litigation and the communications regarding the immunity provisions concerned that common interest.â€
- A Library to Last Forever (NY Times Op Ed)
- I can see both sides of this issue. Either way, I hope that we find a satisfactory way to rescue orphaned works from the black hold of being out of print.
Perhaps these would have been better Twittered or Quick Pressed.