Comments on: CATO on the DMCA https://thegreateric.com/blog/2006/03/22/cato-on-the-dmca/ The interesting, the amazing, and some stuff only I would ever care about Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Ned Ulbricht https://thegreateric.com/blog/2006/03/22/cato-on-the-dmca/#comment-4 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:47:03 +0000 https://thegreateric.com/blog/2006/03/22/cato-on-the-dmca/#comment-4 Speaking of anecdotes, in her forthcoming paper <a href="http://scrawford.net/courses/ambulance_for_ssrn.pdf" rel="nofollow">The Ambulance, the Squad Car, and the Internet</a>, Susan Crawford (Cardozo School of Law) remarks in a footnote on p.24: <blockquote>No one I spoke to at the FCC could recall any past Commission meeting featuring a “victims panel” like the one that was convened for the E911 session. It was an unprecedented piece of theater. Note that all of the narratives presented had to do with problems with Vonage services. There has been speculation that the entire E911 proceeding was aimed directly at Vonage by Chairman Martin. Vonage’s somewhat bombastic CEO, Jeffrey Citron, had supported Michael Gallagher—and not Kevin Martin— for the post of FCC Chairman. Vonage was a favorite company of Martin’s predecessor, Michael Powell, with whom Martin had had many political clashes. (Powell supported Gallagher over Martin as well.) The E911 proceeding can be seen as vengeance for all of these activities. [...]</blockquote> http://scrawford.net/courses/ambulance_for_ssrn.pdf I'm curious to know who can spin a better tragedy?... Register of Copyrights Mary-Beth Peters... or FCC Chairman Kevin Martin. Speaking of anecdotes, in her forthcoming paper The Ambulance, the Squad Car, and the Internet, Susan Crawford (Cardozo School of Law) remarks in a footnote on p.24:

No one I spoke to at the FCC could recall any past Commission meeting featuring a “victims panel” like the one that was convened for the E911 session. It was an unprecedented piece of theater. Note that all of the narratives presented had to do with problems with Vonage services. There has been speculation that the entire E911 proceeding was aimed directly at Vonage by Chairman Martin. Vonage’s somewhat bombastic CEO, Jeffrey Citron, had supported Michael Gallagher—and not Kevin Martin— for the post of FCC Chairman. Vonage was a
favorite company of Martin’s predecessor, Michael Powell, with whom Martin had had many political clashes. (Powell supported Gallagher over Martin as well.) The E911 proceeding can be seen as vengeance for all of these activities. […]

http://scrawford.net/courses/ambulance_for_ssrn.pdf

I’m curious to know who can spin a better tragedy?… Register of Copyrights Mary-Beth Peters… or FCC Chairman Kevin Martin.

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