FLAG FOES JUSTIFY DAY IN COURT

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:33:47 -0800
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FLAG FOES JUSTIFY DAY IN COURT

FLAG FOES JUSTIFY DAY IN COURT

Public Knowledge, the American Library Association, and other
petitioners have made their case for standing in their challenge to the
FCC's decision approving the broadcast flag, which would imbed a code
in digital broadcasts to prevent them being widely copied and
distributed. In Tuesday's brief, Public Knowledge et. al. cited the
North Carolina State University Library's Internet distribution of
video clips for distance learning as threatened by the flag, as well as
American University in Washington, UCLA, and Vanderbilt. All were
identified as parties whose educational video operations would be
harmed either by restrictions or by the expense of upgrading to
flag-compliant equipment. Other harmed parties cited included a couple
of bloggers who said they would no longer be able to use broadcast
clips to annotate their blogs, the marketer of an HDTV tuner card, and
a user of the pc-based PVR like device, MythTV, which works in concert
with a tuner card. MPAA and the FCC now have 10 days to file their
response to the new brief.

[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
<http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA514070?
display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP>

For more on the broadcast flag court challenge, see:
<http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/bfcase>
PK court brief:
<http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/pk-bfcase-supplemental-brief.pdf>


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