[IP] more on Three Drafts of Senate Commerce Committee Communications Bill
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From: "Gelles, Jeff" <jgelles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 19, 2006 3:09:04 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] more on Three Drafts of Senate Commerce Committee
Communications Bill
Dave --
Something else that latest draft does, apparently, is deep-six the
Sports Freedom Act language that Stevens incorporated from a bill
introduced by Sen. Ensign and others. That was the section designed
to prevent cable companies from monopolizing local sports telecasts,
as Comcast does here in Philadelphia by withholding SportsNet from
the satellites.
In its place is an expanded version of another section designed to
improve satellite-TV access in Alaska and Hawaii.
I did a blog entry on this today: http://go.philly.com/consumerwatch
Jeff Gelles
Philadelphia Inquirer
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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 2:40 PM
To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IP] more on Three Drafts of Senate Commerce Committee
Communications Bill
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From: Brett Glass <brett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 19, 2006 2:28:48 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Three Drafts of Senate Commerce Committee
Communications Bill
At 11:29 AM 6/19/2006, Drew Clark wrote:
A copy of Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Steven's new telecom
legislation is available -- and it keeps growing. What started out as
135 pages on May 1 grew to 151 pages in the June 9 draft that was
released on June 12. This third draft -- dated June 16 and expected
to be officially unveiled in a 10 a.m. briefing on Capitol Hill --
tops off at 151 pages.
It's also worth noting that this new version makes an end run around
recent court decisions by specifically enabling the FCC to mandate
the "broadcast flag." This flag is intended to prevent recording or
time-shifting of audio and video programming.
--Brett Glass
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