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isoc-ny 2:36 pm on January 24, 2015 Permalink | Reply
Tags: fcc ( 80 ), house ( 25 ), net neutrality ( 39 ), open internet ( 25 ), senate ( 12 ), USG
VIDEO: Congress hearings on “Protecting the Internet” #netneutrality #fcc #house #senate
On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held consecutive hearings “Protecting the Internet and Consumers through Congressional Action”. The hearings discussed a draft bill that would pre-empt the FCC’s revised Open Internet ruling, expected in February 2015, specifically:

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure Internet openness, to prohibit blocking lawful content and non-harmful devices, to prohibit throttling data, to prohibit paid prioritization, to require transparency of network management practices, to provide that broadband shall be considered to be an information service, and to prohibit the Commission or a State commission from relying on section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a grant of authority.

Video is below. Speaker indexes are available in the YouTube descriptions.

HOUSE HEARING:

View on Youtube: http://youtu.be/uP_dxvXzVwI
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/21PwAWRTWXm0/
Witnesses: Michael Powell – President and CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association; Chad Dickerson – CEO, Etsy; Paul Misener – Vice President of Global Public Policy, Amazon Inc; Jessica Gonzalez – Executive Vice President and General Counsel, National Hispanic Media Coalition; Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee – Vice President and Chief Research and Policy Officer, Minority Media & Telecom Council; Meredith Atwell Baker, President and CEO, CTIA-The Wireless Association

SENATE HEARING:

View on Youtube: http://youtu.be/vefwMem49KM
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/DwK4KMPgaQWf/
Witnesses: Meredith Attwell Baker – President and CEO, CTIA-The Wireless Association; Gene Kimmelman – President and CEO, Public Knowledge; Robert McDowell – Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Paul Misener – Vice President, Global Public Policy, Amazon Inc.; Tom Simmons – Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Midcontinent Communications; Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee – Vice President & Chief Research and Policy Officer, Minority Media & Telecommunications Council
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- joly 3:32 pm on January 24, 2015 Permalink | Reply
  
  Ranking Member Eshoo does 74 mins in enter into the record a letter from Mayor DiBlasio in support of Title ii
- joly 7:54 pm on January 25, 2015 Permalink | Reply
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  - 1/16 Mario Trujillo GOP lawmakers offer net neutrality bill (The Hill)
  - 1/17 Jon Healey Republicans’ net neutrality bill hints at a middle ground (LA Times)
  - 1/20 Barbara van Schewick & Morgan N. Weiland New Republican Bill Is Network Neutrality in Name Only (Stanford Law Review)
  - 1/21 Hamza Shaban Here’s how the new Republican Congress plans to undercut net neutrality (The Verge)
  - 1/28 Barbara van Schewick & Morgan N. Weiland Seven Reasons the new GOP Bill will not give US Net Neutrality (Stanford CIS)
- joly 7:26 pm on February 2, 2015 Permalink | Reply
  - 1/22 Bicameral letter to Tom Wheeler
  - 2/2 Tom Wheeler response
  - 2/2 Bicameral letter to President Obama
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isoc-ny 8:40 pm on September 21, 2014 Permalink | Reply
Tags: core internet values ( 10 ), InternetNZ ( 3 ), onewebday ( 6 ), owd, USG
#OneWebDay 2014 – Recognizing Core Internet Values #keeptheinternetopen
OneWebDay, held on September 22 every year since 2006, is a global event aimed at giving all participants in this unprecedented turn in human evolution that is the Internet a chance not only to celebrate it, but also to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining the open-networking principles that have made it the success it is.

OneWebDay 2014 will be held on Monday 22 September 2014. The suggested theme for this year’s events is to Recognizing Internet Core Values. These core values can be defined as End-to-End, Open Standards, Universal Access, and Freedom of Expression. For OneWebDay in 2014 we suggest the viewing/reposting of the three videos below.

1) On August 24 2014, Dave Moskowitz of InternetNZ spoke at TEDxWellington. His topic was ‘The Four Superpowers of the Internet‘. Dave describes the Core Internet Values as superpowers, which he titles more briefly as DIRECT – OPEN – ACCESSIBLE – FREE. To use these powers justly he invokes TED prize winner Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion, which calls upon each of us to live the “golden rule”, and treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/CLCkjfUI_fs
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/6f0PUcknxwvH/
Read text: http://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/2014/09/10/my-tedx-talk-the-four-superpowers-of-the-internet/

2) On August 29 2014 the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs, issued a video “The Internet Belongs to Everyone” which very much emphasizes the core values, and their maintenance via the multistakeholder model – which needs for to be defended from regulatory encroachment worldwide. The video has English closed captions.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/XqwijhDr7pE
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/emTQ02LEjBmh/

3) On September 5 2014 the Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values met at the Internet Governance Forum 2014 in Istanbul. The session brought together Representatives from two Civil Society Organizations, two Business Corporations, two Governments, two Technical Organizations and two Universities. PANEL:
Dr Vint Cerf (ARIN); Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, (Internet Society India Chennai); Baroness Rennie Fritchie DBE (Nominet, UK) ; Amy Stepenovich (Access Now); David Cake (Electronic Frontiers Australia ); Lawrence E Strickling (NTIA, USA); Paul Wilson (APNIC); Dr. Steve Crocker (ICANN); Adam Peake. (Academic Community); and Desiree Miloshevic, Internet Society, CHAIR: Dr Olivier Crepin-LeBlond (ICANN At-Large). While this is a lengthy video (94 mins) it really brings forth some of the key issues affecting and, occasionally, threatening core Internet values in 2014. There is a rough transcript.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/LHkXhjF6Zqs
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/YVcbsEeVHlEZ/
Read text: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/174-igf-2014/transcripts/2021-2014-09-05-dc-on-core-internet-values-room-10
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isoc-ny 4:46 am on August 22, 2014 Permalink | Reply
Tags: copyright ( 79 ), USG
U.S. @CopyrightOffice issues draft of 3rd edition of #Copyright Compendium
On August 19 2014 the United States Copyright Office issued a public draft the 3rd edition of the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices. The Compendium is the administrative manual of the Register of Copyrights concerning Title 17 of the United States Code and Chapter 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations. It provides instruction to agency staff regarding their statutory duties and provides expert guidance to copyright applicants, practitioners, scholars, the courts, and members of the general public regarding institutional practices and related principles of law, with a primary focus on the registration of copyright claims, documentation of copyright ownership, and recordation of copyright documents, including assignments and licenses. It describes the wide range of services that the Office provides for searching, accessing, and retrieving information located in its extensive collection of copyright records and the associated fees for these services. The Compendium provides guidance regarding the contents and scope of particular registrations and records. And it seeks to educate applicants about a number of common mistakes, such as providing incorrect, ambiguous, or insufficient information, or making overbroad claims of authorship. The Compendium was first issued in 1967 and revised in 1973. Compendium 1 still applies to all works registered before 1978 when copyright law was updated. The 3rd edition is scheduled to take effect in December 2014.

Download: http://copyright.gov/comp3/docs/compendium-full.pdf
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isoc-ny 1:03 pm on November 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: copyright ( 79 ), csusa ( 20 ), policy ( 38 ), shira perlmutter, USG
VIDEO: Shira Perlmutter – From Paralysis to Progress: The (Useful) Art of Copyright Pragmatism @thecsusa #copyright
On November 4 2013 the Copyright Society of the USA presented the 43rd annual Donald C. Brace Memorial Lecture featuring Shira Perlmutter, Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Ms. Perlmutter’s topic was From Paralysis to Progress: The (Useful) Art of Copyright Pragmatism . For most of our country’s history, copyright policy and legislation were largely immune from the partisan rancor that has long characterized other areas such as tax policy, social programs,and privacy protection. The organized revolt against recent efforts to enhance copyright protections, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), underscores that things have changed. Panelists Derek Khanna and Ben, who come from both sides of the debate, explored the competing interests and ideologies that brought us here, and how the heightened role of politics in copyright policy is likely to play out. Video is below.

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- Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/CvtIzRdQxIMo/
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isoc-ny 6:08 am on September 10, 2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: internet freedom ( 79 ), isoc ( 149 ), surveillance ( 36 ), USG
@InternetSociety statement on U.S. Government encryption circumvention #netfreedom
The Internet Society has issued a statement in response to recent continuing reports alleging systematic United States government efforts to circumvent Internet security mechanisms. In it Internet Society President and CEO, Lynn St. Amour is quoted as saying “If true, these reports describe government programmes that undermine the technical foundations of the Internet and are a fundamental threat to the Internet’s economic, innovative, and social potential. Any systematic, state-level attack on Internet security and privacy is a rejection of the global, collaborative fabric that has enabled the Internet’s growth to extend beyond the interests of any one country.”

The statement concludes with a general call for action by the Internet community.
The Internet has tremendous potential for economic and social good, but unless all stakeholders trust the Internet as a safe place for business, social interaction, academic enquiry, and self-expression, those economic and social benefits are put at risk. To fulfill its potential, the Internet must be underpinned by the right combination of technology, operational processes, legislation, policy, and governance. The recent reports suggest that U.S. Government programmes have systematically undermined some or all of those measures, and that is why we view the revelations with such grave concern.

With this mind, we issue these calls to action for the global community:
- To every citizen of the Internet: let your government representatives know that, even in matters of national security, you expect privacy, rule of law, and due process in any handling of your data.
Security is a collective responsibility that involves multiple stakeholders. In this regard, we call on:
- Those involved in technology research and development: use the openness of standards processes like the IETF to challenge assumptions about security specifications.
- Those who implement the technology and standards for Internet security: uphold that responsibility in your work, and be mindful of the damage caused by loss of trust.
- Those who develop products and services that depend on a trusted Internet: secure your own services, and be intolerant of insecurity in the infrastructure on which you depend.
- To every Internet user: ensure you are well informed about good practice in online security, and act on that information. Take responsibility for your own security.
At the Internet Society, we remain committed to advancing work in areas such as browser security, privacy settings, and digital footprint awareness in order to help users understand and manage their privacy and security. The citizens of the Internet deserve a global and open platform for communication built on solid foundations of security and privacy.
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- joly 12:57 am on September 12, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  - 9/9 Tom Simonite NSA Leak Leaves Crypto-Math Intact but Highlights Known Workarounds (MIT Technology Review)
isoc-ny 4:03 am on June 28, 2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: brookings ( 5 ), cyberwar ( 3 ), matin dempsey, security ( 26 ), USG
VIDEO: Defending the Nation at Network Speed @Martin_Dempsey @BrookingsInst #cyberwar #security
On June 27 2013, the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at Brookings hosted General Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for an event Defending the Nation at Network Speed. General Dempsey is the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. He previously served as the chief of staff of the Army, and before that as commander of U.S. Central Command. Following the general’s remarks, Brookings Senior Fellow Peter W. Singer joined him in a discussion of the state of American cybersecurity. Video is below. It runs just under an hour.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/V_e5xjTS7Vg
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/Yn14JCH8Nd2h/
Audio: listen |download
Text: Gen. Dempsey’s prepared remarks
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- joly 12:12 am on June 29, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  - 6/27 Gopal Ratnam- Pentagon Revising Cyber-Attack Responses, Dempsey Says (Bloomberg)
isoc-ny 3:00 am on May 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: copyright ( 79 ), copyright reform ( 4 ), cpp, house ( 25 ), pamela samuelson, USG
VIDEO: @HouseJudiciary hearing on #copyright principles – May 16 2013
On April 24 2013 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced that the Judiciary Committee will conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law. The first hearing – entitled A Case Study for Consensus Building: The Copyright Principles Project took place on Thursday May 16 2013. The hearing examined the work of the Copyright Principles Project (CPP) who, after a lengthy consultation process, in 2010 issued a report THE COPYRIGHT PRINCIPLES PROJECT: DIRECTIONS FOR REFORM. Witnesses included CPP convenor Pamela Samuelson and 4 other contributors. Video is below. Help with transcription is appreciated.

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/R5Felg9DhQo
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/5EYL2lgOXs0U/
Twitter: @housejudiciary | #copyright
Statement
- Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte
Testimony:
- Witnesses
- Future of Music Coalition
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- joly 5:07 pm on May 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  - 5/7 Derek Khanna House Judiciary Subcommittee’s First Copyright Hearing (Forbes)
  - 5/8 Casey Rae Kickoff “Copyright Review” Hearing in House of Representatives (FMC)
  - 5/16 Terry Hart Copyright Review Principles and Consensus (Copyhype)
  - 5/21 Derek Khanna Let artists, innovators and the public define our copyright system (WaPo)
- Deaf 5:17 pm on May 8, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  
  I hope it is captioned? All events hosted by federal agencies and profitable organizations have to be readily accessible.
isoc-ny 2:01 am on April 17, 2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: EC ( 5 ), house ( 25 ), internet freedom ( 79 ), law ( 43 ), policy ( 38 ), USG
VIDEO: House hearing on Internet Governance legislation #netfreedom #house #wcit
On April 10 and 11 2013 the US House of Representives Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing Markup of H.R. __, A Bill to Affirm the Policy of the United States Regarding Internet Governance While a similar resolution (against government regulation and supporting multistakeholderism) passed unanimously at the time of the WCIT last year, this attempt to pass similar language into law met with some opposition, as it might inhibit the FCC’s ability to regulate domestically, for example, net neutrality. The discussion highlighted partisan differences on the issue, but there was consensus that common ground could, and should, be found. Ultimately, it went back to the drawing board. Video is below.

April 10 (34 mins)
- View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/HeDNQRuMLmU
- Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/PntsE9mgg6rC/
April 11 (10 mins)
- View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/lwXL4moUUFU
- Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/zkSjHP6CHLQJ/
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- joly 1:19 pm on April 17, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Further to this, today April 17 2013 the bill was sent to the Full Committee for a vote, the subcommittee having resolved their differences by changing the wording from “promote a global Internet free from government control.” to “”to preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet.”
  - Draft bill
  - Thomas: H.R. 1580
  - Popvox H.R. 1580
- joly 4:06 am on April 18, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  - 4/17 Brendan Sasso Internet freedom bill (The Hill)
  - 4/10 Milton Mueller AN INTERNET ‘FREE FROM GOVERNMENT CONTROL:’ A WORTHY PRINCIPLE (IGP)
isoc-ny 3:03 pm on March 20, 2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: copyright ( 79 ), copyright reform ( 4 ), maria pallante, USG
WEBCAST TODAY: The Register’s Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law #copyright #house
At 3.30pm today Wednesday March 20 2013 the US House Judiciary Committee will hear Maria Pallante, US Register of Copyrights, present
The Register’s Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law, based on her March 4 lecture at Columbia University – THE NEXT GREAT COPYRIGHT ACT which calls for Congress to consider copyright reform. The hearing will be webcast live.

What: The Register’s Call for Updates to U.S. Copyright Law
Where: US House of Representatives, Washington DC
When: Wednesday March 20 2013 3.30pm EDT | 1930 UTC
Webcast: http://mfile.akamai.com/65764/live/reflector:39480.asx?bkup=39655&prop=n
Testimony: http://www.copyright.gov/regstat/2013/regstat03202013.html
Twitter: #copyright
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- joly 12:40 pm on March 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  - 3/25 Rick Marshall “THE NEXT GREAT COPYRIGHT ACT”: A PRIMER (Copy)
  - 3/28 Seth A. Davidson Register of copyrights urges Congress to undertake comprehensive revision of Copyright Act (Lexology)
isoc-ny 1:21 pm on March 12, 2013 Permalink | Reply
Tags: fcc ( 80 ), senate commerce committee ( 2 ), USG
WEBCAST TODAY: 2:45pm : Senate “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission” hearing #fcc #senate
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a hearing on March 12, 2013 at 2:45 p.m. titled “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission.” The hearing will be webcast live via the Senate Commerce Committee website. Captions had to be requested 3 days prior.

What: Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission
Where: Russell Senate Office Building, Washington DC
When: Tuesday March 12, 2013 2:45 pm EDT | 1845 UTC
Webcast: http://commerce.senate.gov/
Twitter: #fcc | #senate
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