Public Knowledge

Public Knowledge is one of 14 parties asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to consider changing the rules governing the terms and conditions under which broadcast stations are carried on cable networks.

Qwest has scored quite the little victory in its efforts to keep itself from the evil socialist menace known as "local government providing broadband when the incumbent does a lousy job."

In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, big telecommunications carriers write "[J]ust when regulatory certainty is most needed to keep the private-enterprise engine running in high gear, some parties advocate abandoning the current Title I model in favor of public-utility-type regulation under Title II. Robert McChesney, the co-founder of Free Press and a current member of its Board, articulated that group's radical agenda in an interview with the Socialist Project."

The Federal Communications Commission has started to dig through its backlog of indecency complaints. This predictably triggers some cheap shots at the FCC.

The Federal Communications Commission is trying to figure out how to examine the market for some of the most popular telecom services used by big business - so-called "special access" services. Public Knowledge late Feb. 24 called on the Federal Communications Commission to make certain that consumer interests are taken into account into as it examines the structure of a market that sells its services to big business.

It is misleading to say that the current debate over Network Neutrality and the open Internet is about the Net. The current debate over Net Neutrality and the open Internet is not about the Net. It's not about Neutrality. It's not about openness. It's about you.

Saying that, "We need a bolder vision that starts to break down the barriers to free culture - that starts to break the vise grip the few and powerful have on ownership," Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi B. Sohn announced a new five-part Copyright Reform Act.

Public Knowledge, along with five competitive telecom carriers, released an important economic analysis showing that decreased regulation of local telephone companies has resulted in less investment by those companies - not more as the companies claimed would happen.

Today's news that Google shut down music blogs that were accused of copyright infringement is rightfully getting plenty of coverage.

A pivotal court case being heard in the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals, San Francisco, could determine whether consumers will continue to have the right to buy and to sell used items like books, music, movies or software programs.