Policy blueprint ready for data superhighway

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VP Al Gore and Commerce Sec Ronald H. Brown will unveil the Clinton Administration's policy statement on building a national information superhighway Sep 15. The report will encourage private industry to take responsibility for building the advanced data network, following public-interest guidelines to be set by a new Information Infrastructure Task Force. The Task Force will develop recommendations to protect personal privacy, redefine patent and copyright protection for the digital age and promote connectivity among component networks. The report is short on specifics, making it unlikely to offend anyone. It avoids such issues as whether local telephone companies should be given an expanded role in building the system, or whether their rivals should be allowed to offer competing local telecommunications services. While the report does call for a higher level of basic service at affordable rates, it does not specify how to subsidize it.

Cable and other pay TV services, Executive offices, Computer networks, Reports, Privacy, Copyrights, Product development, Patents, Gore, Albert, Jr., United States. Executive Office of the President, Networks, Future Technologies, Patent/Copyright Issue, Policy, Telecommunications Services Industry, Pricing Policy, Brown, Ronald H.

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Newspaper-telephone turf war intensifies

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Newspapers and telephone companies are engaging in a battle over whether the telecommunications industry and phone companies can offer information services that ultimately compete with the publishing industry's advertising revenues. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jack Brooks vows that he will support the newspapers in their struggle to maintain the rights to the dissemination of information services. Newspaper publishers claim that the telephone companies will use their near-monopolies to compete unfairly. The Bell telephone companies plan to use a study that shows that newspapers have raised advertising rates above inflation rates and faster than the television and radio rates. Brooks will try to reinstate part of the antitrust ban that broke up the old Bell system.

Newspapers, Telephone companies, Advertising, Information services, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Press law, Legislative process, Competition, Legal Issues, Telephone Company, Legislation, Advertising (Industry), Bell Regional Holding Companies

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