Acacia Technologies Signs 64 New Digital Media Transmission License Agreements This company holds some patents concerning streaming media and is going after companies for licensing fees. Universities are a potential target, but live radio streams don't seem ripe as a target as it appears that the patent requires the material to be stored prior to streaming.
From RBR.. PTC: Newspapers reject what FCC approvedIn a split decision, the FCC recently ruled that episodes of Fox's "Keen Eddie" and WB's "Off Center" were not actionably indecent (11/24/04 RBR #230). Following that, Parents Television Council says it tried to include content from those episodes in a newspaper display advertisement. Five major newspapers declined to run the ad. The papers named by PTC include "USA Today," "Los Angeles Times," "Washington Post," "New York Times," and "Wall Street Journal." PTC named names, taking Michael Powell, Jonathan Adelstein and Kathleen Abernathy to task for failing to find the materi al indecent. "The policies of these newspapers are not just reasonable, they are commendable," said PTC's Brent Bozell. "Isn't it the ultimate irony that these newspapers, which are read overwhelmingly by adults, enforce standards to protect adults from sexually graphic content, yet Chairman Powell gives the green light to let children view the same content?" Bozell accused the FCC of failing to do its job, and said transcripts of the shows and copies of PTC's rejected ad were on their way to members of Congress.
FCC diversity group headed for FloridaA special meeting of FCC Chairman Michael Powell's Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age is being held at Florida Memorial College in Miami 12/10/04. The session kicks off a 1:00 PM eastern. The committee, which is charged with exploring ways to encourage greater minority participation in all communications industries, will tackle three topics at the session. It will start with a best practices session called "Workplace Diversity: A Global Necessity and an Ongoing Commitment." Then the Transactional Transparency and Outreach Subcommittee will look at merger review and the Financial Issues Subcommittee will look at community reinvestment and foreign ownership. A morning session will also be held. It will focus on encouraging the use within the communications industry of small minority-owned businesses as suppliers of n ew technology.
