In response to the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preserving the Open Internet, Digital Society would ask the FCC consider the impact its rules may have on the information economy.

In many ways, the mobile broadband market may be showing the wired broadband market the path forward towards a digital economy that actually works on multiple levels – both the commons and the market.

After arguing in 2006 that the FCC “should not become … the Federal Copyright Commission”, Public Knowledge is now praising the FCC for its discussion of copyright issues in the national broadband plan.

Settle on a talking point, please.

We have invited Jeff Turner, Principal/CTO of Interstream, to share his perspective on the technical implications (vs. the philosophical digressions and debates) of net neutrality. He has gained this perspective over his many years as an executive at some of the top hardware firms that built the web (including Cisco and Novell).

The 2010 Intellectual Property Rights Index has been released. While it serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of property rights to economic growth and developing economies, new restrictions on digital business models may have an un-measured negative impact on property rights.

Chairman Genachowski “gets a little peeved when people suggests that he wants to regulate the Internet.” But Genachowski’s good intentions pave a road whose outcome is far less clear that net neutrality supporters like to believe.

Geoff Daily wrote something I think is worth highlighting. Noting (A) Christopher Yoo’s point about the benefits of smart networks (multicast, mobility, security, cloud computing, interactive video, adaptability) and the preference or letting innovation happen before presuming it must be regulated, and (B) the points made by the Open Internet Coalition’s Markham Erickson, who “supports the notion that networks being able to offer prioritized service may potentially be a net positive, but he cautions that” it could tilt investment to managed services, rather than “open bandwidth”.

Micro-payments are frequently raised as a potential funding mechanism for digital content. There are a number of important issues that any experimentation will have to address.

The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation hosted a forum today to discuss a paper by Milton Mueller: Info-Communism? Ownership and Freedom in the Digital Age.