…as fiber-to-the-home (and, to a limited extent, fiber-to-the-node), are comparable to cable in terms of technical performance, the higher infrastructure costs associated with building out these networks limits their competitive…
Read MoreKnight Foundation Releases Visualization of Themes from Net Neutrality Comments
By Meredith Whipple
August 15, 2014
…the sample in opposition of net neutrality came from form letters, and form letters were collapsed into a single node. Even so, the majority of these form letters were in…
Read More…meet the goal releasing text on a rolling basis as demanded by the EU parliament during the ACTA in March 2010. As expressed in a letter signed by more than…
Read MoreWikileaks Shows What’s New and What’s Old About the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
By Sherwin Siy
November 18, 2013
…SOPA; a similar international outcry against IP trade agreements in ACTA; and a groundswell of outrage that copyright law would prevent people from doing something as basic (and as unrelated to…
Read MoreCopyright and Secrecy Don’t Make for Good Trade Agreements
By Rashmi Rangnath
May 10, 2013
…is deeply flawed Remember ACTA – the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? The USTR and the EU authorities negotiated ACTA in secret. They ignored public interest concerns as they negotiated ACTA. Public…
Read MoreWill Walden Wipe Out DMCA Just To Hack At Net Neutrality? Make My Day!
By Harold Feld
April 10, 2013
…is binding domestic law, then it becomes illegal for for the US Trade Representative to even ask for the crazy train copyright crap it put in ACTA and keeps demanding…
Read MoreCopyright’s Impact on Free Expression Rights
By Rashmi Rangnath
February 27, 2013
…that will adversely impact free expression rights. The tenor of the ACTA negotiations suggests that neither side is likely to evaluate the free expression impacts of an IP chapter. The…
Read MoreWhat the Election Means for the Internet
By Gigi Sohn
November 7, 2012
…balance in the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The Future of Video The question of how to ensure that Internet video fulfills its promise is…
Read MoreEU Parliament Rejects ACTA: Ray of Hope for TPP
By Rashmi Rangnath
July 5, 2012
…in the name of protecting intellectual property. A concern for these rights was one of the reasons Europe rejected ACTA. ACTA negotiators paid lip service to these values and accused…
Read MoreUSTR Keeps Making ITU Look Good On Transparency, Which Is Bad For Everyone.
By Harold Feld
July 2, 2012
…doing things like pushing ACTA (which continues to be held up in Europe and elsewhere as a symbol of the U.S. shilling for Hollywood at the expense of free expression),…
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