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10/06/2016
Democratic Reps Push FCC to Release Set-Top Proposal
Representing both coasts' hotbeds of video production, Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) and Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) called Wednesday for the FCC to release the text of the evolving set-top box proposal.
That proposal has gone from "unlocking the box" to unlocking the app," which is more along the lines of the app-based proposal offered up by NCTA: The Internet & Television Association but with enough hereditary copyright and contract issues from the previous proposal to make it still unpalatable to ISPs and studios, at least in the form pulled from the FCC's public meeting two weeks ago.
Clarke, as vice chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, has been pushing the FCC to delay a vote (and publish the text) over concerns about the impact of the proposal on copyright, contracts and content of diverse programmers.
