Concerns About FCC Set-Top Plan Haven't Been Addressed, Says NCTA

Proponents of the FCC set-top proposal failed “to allay concerns” with their plan, said NCTA in an ex parte filing in docket 16-42 it characterized as a “rebuttal.” Supporters of the FCC plan “still seek an FCC-issued zero-cost compulsory copyright license -- entirely unauthorized by law -- to allow unlicensed tech companies to commercially exploit copyrighted works without permission from or compensation to the copyright owners,” NCTA said. The fixes offered for privacy and security in the agency plan are insufficient, NCTA said. “Sloganeering with false claims does nothing to make their proposal workable or lawful, or possible to implement as quickly as they predict.” The HTML5 compromise proposal would avoid those concerns, and the FCC should move forward with it, NCTA said.