In a recent appearance at a Federal Trade Commission forum, Rupert Murdoch complained about web sites which “steal” his content.  The fight over how to apply the “hot news” doctrine to the Internet age is an important one.

Google and Twitter Pour Cold Water on “Hot News”
Google and Twitter have weighed in on the “hot news” [...]

Media reform, public interest groups file petition calling the companies’ promises on program access empty
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable

For some groups, no public interest promises from Comcast and NBC Universal or conditions imposed by the FCC and/or Justice are sufficient to allow the two companies to join forces.
As promised, Media Access Project [...]

Registration (no charge) is required to read Eli Noam’s thoughtful and somewhat contrarian piece about the United States’ standing in the technology race, but it is worth the effort.
The Re-assertion of America in ICT
It’s become conventional wisdom in academia, politics, and the press that America has fallen behind in electronic communications. Where once America [...]

By Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica

The media reform crowd is going nuts over reports that the Federal Communications Commission is holding closed door meetings with ISPs, Google, and Skype in a bid to reach a compromise deal on the agency’s proposed net neutrality rules.
“It is stunning that the FCC would convene meetings between industry giants to allow them [...]

Anti-Competitive Impact Runs Wide and Deep
WASHINGTON – On Monday, Free Press, Media Access Project, Consumers Union and the Consumer [...]

FCC source says series of meetings are still to come
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News

It wasn’t hard to figure out how network neutrality fan Free Press felt about the news that the FCC has been holding meetings with members of the cable, telco and computer industries about targeted legislation that would clarify the [...]

* Meeting focused on reaching consensus-US official
* No real progress seen from meeting-source
* Verizon, AT&T, Google attended meeting
By John Poirier, Reuters
WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) – U.S. communications regulators are holding a series of closed-door meetings with phone, cable and Internet lobbyists in an effort to hammer out a deal over how [...]

WASHINGTON — Reports surfaced today about FCC-brokered, closed-door meetings between the agency and representatives of telephone, cable, and edge [...]

By Gautham Nagesh, The Hill

A coalition of media companies, unions and nonprofits is urging the Federal Communications Commission to block the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal.
The coalition, made up of organizations including media giant Bloomberg, the Writers Guild of America, West and advocacy groups like Free Press and Media Access [...]

by Wayne Friedman, MediaDaily News
After being rejected by the Federal Communications Commission in its request for more time for the federal agency to review the NBC Universal-Comcast deal, media company Bloomberg LP now says it opposes the proposed joint venture.
In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Christine Varney, who is overseeing the Justice [...]