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Hmm, no mention of Markey's recent bill, the "Wireless Technology Investment and Digital Dividends Act" aka hr4641. It would use some of the proceeds from spectrum auctions to go to a fund to support digital divide issues and clear our new unlicensed spectrum. There's a companion bill in the Senate that *doesn't* include the spectrum bit, so we'll have to fight for it.
Yall West Coast politico-wannabe's must be out of it if yall missed this, get in the game already. This stuff is going down in Washington and yall don't even know it. Couldn't Larry Lessig have clued you in? Seriously, here's some resources on this.
Quick info on the bill from the Center for Digital Democracy (lead group on the open access fight)
http://democraticmedia.org/news/washingtonwatch/markeyBill.html
The proposal is kinda a scaled down version of the a proposal called the Digital Promise, hatched by a guy from PBS
http://www.digitalpromise.org
This was all discussed at a gab fest at the New America last week
http://newamerica.net/index.cfm?sec=events&pg=event&bg=blk&EveID=189&T2=Intro
there's a pdf of the schedule on the page, the spectrum panel is on towards the end. You'll notice Reed Hundt, former FCC commissioner, and Yochai Benkler who's scholarship intersects w/ free software and other kinds of commons.
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