A last-minute campaign by Fight for the Future raised the public profile of the Copyright Office’s study of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s Section 512 ahead of Friday night's deadline for public feedback on the study. CO reported Monday that it collected more than 91,000 comments. Fight for the Future claimed credit Monday for generating more than 86,000 of the Section 512 comments via users who used its TakeDownAbuse.org website, which the digital rights group said had affected the performance of the federal government’s Regulations.gov website. Fight for the Future is planning to send the CO an additional 11,000 Section 512 comments collected after the filing deadline via a petition. The CO didn’t comment Monday.
Entry Type 86
Entry type 86 is a filing type for low-valued shipments through the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), CBP's online system for registering imports. The Type 86 Test allows low value shipments to benefit from the Section 321 de minimis entry process. Prior to the development of entry type “86,” Section 321 low-valued shipments had to be entered using the informal type “11” entry or the formal entry, which are more complex.
Service glitches, billing errors and product changes are all but assured as multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) digest a record spree of mergers and acquisitions, many experts said. Some said already-low customer satisfaction for broadband and pay-TV service will worsen during integration of M&A worth about $166 billion. That includes AT&T's now-completed (see 1507240055) takeover of DirecTV, Charter Communications' planned buys of Time Warner Cable and of Bright House Networks, and Altice buying control of Suddenlink. At stake for broadband and video subscribers of these and other ISPs and MVPDs is whether their experiences ever improve from levels that some research finds are lower than any other U.S. industry.
The potential market opportunity for the telecom industry in Iraq is $900 million, Wall St. analysts estimated Fri. “Opportunities in Iraq for telecom firms are probably rosier than would be evident in a traditional risk assessment,” said Judy Smith, CEO of Atlantic-ACM Dataline Analysis, telecom consultancy firm. She said companies investigating in such opportunities should base their market entry decisions and risk analyses “on comparables as opposed to Iraq itself.”