Recently the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission doesn’t have to delay opening up the 6 Gigahertz spectrum band for unlicensed Wi-Fi. The court’s decision was in response to a request from public safety and utility organizations, as well as other groups such as AT&T, to grant a stay to the FCC order to open up the 6GHz band.
Immunity to pre-election social media misinformation, remote schooling, telehealth access, productive working-from-home: Who has it and who doesn't? What can be done? How can we ensure the nation's digital and democratic health?
Valarie Kaur will deliver the 38th Annual Parker Lecture and Karen Peltz Strauss will receive the Everett C. Parker Award
2020 Biennial Report To Congress As Required By The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
Things got technical at the Supreme Court as the justices heard arguments from Google and Oracle in a blockbuster copyright dispute that has captivated Silicon Valley for a decade. The dispute concerns about 11,500 lines of code that Google used to build its popular Android mobile operating system, which were replicated from the Java application programming interface developed by Sun Microsystems. Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010, sued Google shortly afterward, arguing that Google’s use of the code violates its ownership rights.
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