>I understand tat a university legal professor has taken on the RIAA
>in defending a student at a nationally known us university. His
>premise is that the RIAA is being given permission by the us congress
>to do law enforcement work.
It will be interesting to see if America can return to first principles
by rewinding the Patriot Act, DMCA, and the many other abuses of our
fundamental rights. Network Neutrality will probably be the next big
fight.
Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team
"The Obama-Biden transition team on Friday named two long-time net
neutrality advocates to head up its Federal Communications Commission
Review team. Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan
Law School, member of the board of directors of ICANN, and OneWebDay
founder, as well as Kevin Werbach, former FCC staffer, organizer of the
annual Supernova technology conference, and a Wharton professor, will
lead the Obama-Biden transition team's review of the FCC. 'Both are
highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts in telecom policy, and
they've both been pretty harsh critics of the Bush administration's
telecom policies in the past year.' The choice of the duo strongly
signals an entirely different approach to the incumbent-friendly telecom
policy-making that's characterized most of the past eight-years at the FCC."
Reuters has a related story about Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who plans
to introduce net neutrality legislation
<http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE4AC7SU20081114> in
January.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/0343205&from=rss
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