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When television made its grand switch to digital, a spectrum of space was freed.
Nearly a year ago, officials and technology experts in the small Patrick County community of Claudville were granted an experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission to determine if those unused frequencies could be used to bounce wireless signals to some of the most isolated parts of Virginia.
... unused television frequencies, known as white space, for broadband connection. A pet project of ...The first of those was: Are the white spaces, in fact, a good medium for the transmission of w... absence of interference because the broadcasters had been opposed to doing this. The National Asso...
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Google Inc. is appealing directly to consumers in its bid to persuade federal media regulators to open up vacant slices of television spectrum to broadband devices, bringing about what the Internet-search giant describes as "Wi-Fi 2.0.
The Mountain View, Calif., company Monday introduced "Free the Airwaves," a Web site encouraging the public to lobby the Federal Communications Commission to allow high-speed wireless devices to operate in the "white spaces" - the empty spectrum between broadcast- TV channels. Additional channels will free up when the nation switches from analog to digital TV signals in February.
...Opponents, including broadcasters and microphone companies, warn that devices would ... opening up the white spaces - led by the National Association of Broadcasters - doubt the efficacy o...
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A copyright system is designed to produce an ecology that nurtures the creation, dissemination, and enjoyment of works of authorship. When it works well, it encourages creators to generate new works, assists intermediaries in disseminating them widely, and supports readers, listeners, and viewers in enjoying them. If the system poses difficult entry barriers to creators, imposes demanding impediments on intermediaries, or inflicts burdensome conditions and hurdles on readers, then the system fails to achieve at least some of its purposes. The current U.S. copyright statute is flawed in all three respects. In this Article, I explore how the current copyright system is failing its intended beneficiaries. The foundation of copyright law’s legitimacy, I argue, is built on its evident ...
...14 Various trade associations are trying to position themselves to claim that th... because new players ASCAP and radio broadcasters could not agree on anything. 19 In the revision p... limited scope of copyright left large free spaces that permitted readers, listeners, and viewers to ... have lived, for the most part, in the white spaces defined by successive copyright statutes. E... To Destroy the Book, Speech Before the National Reading Summit (Nov. 13, 2009), in THE VARSITY, ...
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Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page yesterday said the country is wasting much of its wireless spectrum and called on federal regulators to free up a slice of airwaves owned by broadcasters to promote increased broadband access.
Mr. Page, in Washington to meet with lawmakers and members of the Federal Communications Commission, said access to the spectrum - the empty channels or "white spaces" between the occupied broadcast channels - would give way to a powerful wireless technology that he referred to as "Wi-Fi on steroids.
...Led by their trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters, they say allowing con...
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Twice a year, in spring and fall, the Commission publishes in the Federal Register a list in the Unified Agenda of those major items and other significant proceedings under development or review that pertain to the Regulatory Flexibility Act. See 5 U.S.C. 602. The Unified Agenda also provides the Code of Federal Regulations citations and legal authorities that govern these proceedings.
...553............ National Environmental Act 3060-AJ36. ... Association Petition. 563............ IP-Enabled Services....... (this unused TV spectrum is often termed ``white spaces''). This action will make a significant amo... and maximization deadlines for DTV broadcasters and updated rules in recognition revisions to broa...
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... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION... commitments by the cable industry, broadcasters and public television to air millions of dollars w...'d like to again recommend the auctioning of white spaces. The market is much better than we regulat... I have three letters from the Cable Association, the Broadcast Association, and Univision concerni...
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...(64) . IV. Television White Spaces . The limited capacity of the Internet prov... is interference with incumbent broadcasters, cable providers, and wireless microphones (in ven... space spectrum a "central element of the national broadband strategy." (233) While many ILECs are co..., and the Wireless Communication Association. Id. at n.26. . (131) Id. at 5494. . (132) Id. at ...
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...Other national boycotts, including a five-month action against th...The activists reasoned that because white areas of the city were reserved for white salesmen..., and points to the fact that the association provided an institutional home for activists that ... shopping centers were racially exclusive spaces; developers aimed to exclude certain racial and et...-profile offenders: banks, television broadcasters, and the airline industry. (45) New York CORE chap...
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... cognitive radios to operate in the unused "white spaces" that exist either in the form of time (i.e... opposed to allocated to--television broadcasters), without causing interference. . The theoretical ... also Comments of CTIA-The Wireless Association at 3-4, A National Broadband Plan for our Future, ...
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...The Emergence of Rock and Roll on White Radio as an Example of Radio's Subversive Past 1. ... interest requirement imposed on broadcasters by the FCC, (5) which required licensees to serve ...) selected based primarily on aggregated national surveys, which became further and further removed ... clubs and evolved into voluntary associations and civic societies of enlightenment. (103) Within... counterpublics," are participatory spaces where participants create counterdiscourses to rul...