This is a thought-provoking, if somewhat disorganized, discussion which explores the implications of Apple’s strict control over apps. In the “open” Internet, web site proprietors receive immunity from libel and (sort of) copyright liability of third parties’ posts precisely because the websites’ managers lack control over the content. When Apple takes on the [...]

By Sam Gustin, Daily Finance
The Comcast-NBC show returned to Capitol Hill Thursday as legislators pressed executives over the companies’ plans to create a $30 billion media juggernaut. During a lengthy round of questioning, Comcast (CMCSA) CEO Brian Roberts and NBC Universal chieftain Jeff Zucker denied that the merger would be anti-competitive and would lead [...]

Amid the buzz coming from the FCC in the runup to the forthcoming release of the National Broadband Plan, readers of RoadMAP might have missed this little, but important story. The technology for using TV “white spaces” is reaching the test stage; if this proves workable, it will be a major advance in the [...]

WASHINGTON — Media Access Project (MAP) has released testimony prepared for delivery before the House Committee on the Judiciary tomorrow morning. In the testimony, Andrew Jay Schwartzman, MAP President and CEO, expresses opposition to Comcast’s proposed acquisition of NBC Universal (NBCU).
His testimony draws attention to the transaction’s potential impact on independent programmers, since Comcast’s increase [...]

By Grant Gross, IT World
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming national broadband plan will ask the nation’s television broadcasters to voluntarily give up unused wireless spectrum, in exchange for a share of the profits when that spectrum is sold, the agency’s chairman said Wednesday.
The FCC’s national broadband plan, due out next month, will focus on [...]

Media Access Project (MAP) commends Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski for the bold spectrum policy initiatives to be included in the National Broadband Plan, as previewed in his speech today at the New America Foundation.
“Chairman Genachowski was on the mark, both in characterizing the FCC’s spectrum proposals as dramatic steps, and in acknowledging that [...]

By Ira Teinowitz, The Wrap
Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” may have lasted only a fraction of a second, but five years later it’s still wending its way through the courts.

Details Potential Negative Impacts for Independent Programmers, Cable and Internet Video Distributors, and the General Public