[Commons-Law] Zoetropes and Nickelodeons: A response to OFCOMs Public Service Publisher proposal
Via: Saul Albert
Dear Commons-law list,
Worse to report on this subject from the UK, as usual.
Towards the end of 2006, OFCOM - the UK's telecommunications regulator
ran a closed-door consultation process on the idea of setting up a
'Public Service Publisher' (PSP).
The vague outline of the consultation was that some kind of public
service response to the Internet was necessary beyond BBC online's
existing efforts - and that approximately 100M UKP might be found to
fund it - whatever it might be. This is still under discussion, in fact,
OFCOM just published the results of the consultation process last
Wednesday on these two websites:
flashy version with pictures : http://www.openmedianetwork.org.uk/
text-heavy pdf: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/pspnewapproach/
NB: uses of the terms 'open' and 'commons' in these documents should be
taken with heaped tablespoons of salt. I have written a longish text
about the consultation on the Open Knowledge Foundation's blog:
http://blog.okfn.org/2007/01/30/zoetropes-and-nickelodeons-a-response-to-ofcoms-public-service-publisher-proposal/
Have a look - and most crucially of all - respond yourselves!
We have until 5pm on the 23rd March 2007. There are full instructions
about how to respond here:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/pspnewapproach/howtorespond/form
It would be a real pity if 100M of public money gets spent on a watered
down, IP-mongering, media-industry-led 'Public Service Publisher'
without any real noise being made by the Free Software / Free Culture
movements in the UK and beyond.
Cheers,
Saul.
Dear Commons-law list,
Worse to report on this subject from the UK, as usual.
Towards the end of 2006, OFCOM - the UK's telecommunications regulator
ran a closed-door consultation process on the idea of setting up a
'Public Service Publisher' (PSP).
The vague outline of the consultation was that some kind of public
service response to the Internet was necessary beyond BBC online's
existing efforts - and that approximately 100M UKP might be found to
fund it - whatever it might be. This is still under discussion, in fact,
OFCOM just published the results of the consultation process last
Wednesday on these two websites:
flashy version with pictures : http://www.openmedianetwork.org.uk/
text-heavy pdf: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/pspnewapproach/
NB: uses of the terms 'open' and 'commons' in these documents should be
taken with heaped tablespoons of salt. I have written a longish text
about the consultation on the Open Knowledge Foundation's blog:
http://blog.okfn.org/2007/01/30/zoetropes-and-nickelodeons-a-response-to-ofcoms-public-service-publisher-proposal/
Have a look - and most crucially of all - respond yourselves!
We have until 5pm on the 23rd March 2007. There are full instructions
about how to respond here:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/pspnewapproach/howtorespond/form
It would be a real pity if 100M of public money gets spent on a watered
down, IP-mongering, media-industry-led 'Public Service Publisher'
without any real noise being made by the Free Software / Free Culture
movements in the UK and beyond.
Cheers,
Saul.
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