Intellectual Property Law

EU commissioner: No fast lanes

By Susan Crawford

From FT.com (ht Joe Kelly):

Neelie Kroes [EU telecommunications minister] said she would take action if companies such as Telefónica and France Telecom sought payments in exchange for carrying bandwith-guzzling services such as Google’s popular YouTube video-sharing website.

“Users should be able to access and distribute the content, services and applications they want,” she said in a speech in Paris.

And the carriers responded:

Lobbyists for telecoms groups said the matter was not settled. “We need to explain that this will reduce incentives for us to invest in much-needed networks,” said one.

Full post as published by Susan Crawford Blog on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).