Net Neutrality, Copyright Protection and the National Broadband Plan
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Date: Jan 19 2010 - 8:00am - 11:00am
Net Neutrality, Copyright Protection and the National Broadband Plan
BroadbandBreakfast.com
Clyde's of Gallery Place
707 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
8am -- 11am
http://ipbreakfast.eventbrite.com/
Among the topics that will be considered in this two-hour National Town Hall Webcast are:
- The debate between broadband providers and Internet companies over Net Neutrality, which has recently heated up as Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has promised new rules regulating the Internet
- Copyright industries' concerns on Internet piracy and its drain on their revenue
- Whether the National Broadband Plan that Genachowski and the FCC is working on is an opportunity to address the concerns of copyright holders
- What the technology and telecommunications industries think of these efforts
Confirmed Speakers:
- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will offer video remarks
- Fernando Laguarda, Vice President, External Affairs and Policy Counselor, Time Warner Cable
- Jeffrey Lawrence, Director, Global Media and Content Policy, Intel Corporation
- John Morris, General Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology
- Ronald Yokubaitis, Co-CEO, Data Foundry
- Several other speakers from the content, technology and telecommunications industry have been invited.
