Bridge Span 14-10: A Bright Day for the Future of the Internet?

This morning the US House of Representatives will debate H.R. 3086, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act. The Act would permanently protect consumers from the increased costs in accessing and using the Internet by extending the moratorium on Internet access taxes, and would also prevent the multiple and discriminatory taxation of Internet sales.

The House […]

July 15th, 2014 | Category: Cable, Communications policy, Tax, Technology, Wireless | Comments are closed

Flyover 14-1: Aereo

As announced yesterday, Aereo, a streaming broadcast TV company, was found to be violating copyrights on programming it was providing, given that the almost live broadcasts it made available represented a public performance of the content and hence was illegal under copyright law. In plain speak, Aereo’s entire business model was to take that which […]

June 26th, 2014 | Category: Communications policy, Intellectual property, Technology | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Bridge Span 14-8: The Copyright Alert System at One

The Copyright Alert System (CAS) has been operating for nearly a year now, and an analysis of its first ten months in action has been released. The CAS is a copyright infringement take down regime that did not require Congressional action, but rather relied on stake holders coming together to address challenges. According to the […]

May 28th, 2014 | Category: Communications policy, Intellectual property, Technology | Comments are closed
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