CHICAGO -- Some House Commerce Committee members are skeptical of the need for AllVid rules the FCC has been aiming to propose, its Republican counsel said. The rulemaking notice being worked on by the commission doesn’t seem likely to be finished soon, said an aide to Senate Communications Subcommittee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass. Both aides, who spoke at the Cable Show Tuesday, said an earlier panel demonstrated that cable operators and programmers are trying to make content more accessible to subscribers.
The International Trade Commission announces that a section 337 patent-based complaint has been filed regarding certain static random access memories and products containing same.
The International Trade Commission announces that a section 337 patent-based complaint has been filed regarding certain integrated circuits, chipsets, and products containing the same, including televisions.
Cyber attacks and the threat of cyberwarfare raise questions of proper legal and policy applications regarding intelligence gathering, liability, authentication and other countermeasures, attorneys said Monday during an American Bar Association event at Crowell & Moring in Washington. The traditional military and counter-attack provisions in Titles 10 and 50 of the U.S. Code provide a challenge to the legal issues of dealing with cyber attacks, some of the attorneys said. “Modern cyberwarfare raises a host of international legal concerns,” said Catherine Lotrionte, executive director at Georgetown University’s Institute for Law, Science and Global Security. Many of these can be addressed in international agreements between states, said Lotrionte, a counsel to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under George W. Bush.
At the June 10, 2011 African Growth and Opportunity Forum, Secretary of State Clinton discussed obstacles to the success of AGOA, such as poor infrastructure, corruption, lack of awareness, and low integration, and U.S. efforts to overcome these obstacles.
The International Trade Commission announces that a section 337 patent-based complaint has been filed regarding certain GPS navigation products, components thereof, and related software.
AT&T will file comments Friday that run more than 200 pages, along with nine affidavits, disputing arguments made in various petitions to deny by opponents of the AT&T/T-Mobile deal, Senior Vice President Robert Quinn said Thursday in a pre-filing briefing with reporters. Meanwhile, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to take a deep dive into information on the deal, launching a full review rather than just prepare comments to file at the FCC. Quinn said AT&T is not concerned about the CPUC investigation or any steps state regulators might take in California or elsewhere.
The FCC should start a proceeding to lay out what rules apply to online video distributors (OVDs), Public Knowledge said in comments filed with the commission this week. Its comments and others came in response to the FCC’s latest inquiry into the state of video competition. “The statute at no point expressly requires that cable systems be facilities-based,” Public Knowledge said. Online video providers that meet certain requirements including signal protection, should be allowed to opt into cable operator status under Title VI of the Communications Act, it said. “Such an opt-in would grant regulatory privileges (such as the right to negotiate for retransmission consent) as well as obligations (perhaps must-carry),” it said.
The FCC should start a proceeding to lay out what rules apply to online video distributors (OVDs), Public Knowledge said in comments filed with the commission this week. Its comments and others came in response to the FCC’s latest inquiry into the state of video competition. “The statute at no point expressly requires that cable systems be facilities-based,” Public Knowledge said. Online video providers that meet certain requirements including signal protection, should be allowed to opt into cable operator status under Title VI of the Communications Act, it said. “Such an opt-in would grant regulatory privileges (such as the right to negotiate for retransmission consent) as well as obligations (perhaps must-carry),” it said.
The FCC should start a proceeding to lay out what rules apply to online video distributors (OVDs), Public Knowledge said in comments filed with the commission this week. Its comments and others came in response to the FCC’s latest inquiry into the state of video competition.