Bob Frankston talks about two important Supreme Court cases coming up — Grokster and Brand X — with an emphasis on the latter. In Brand X, as I understand it, an ISP sued because it was denied access to a cable company’s broadband lines. At stake is whether cable companies, granted munipal monopolies or near-monopolies, will be able to create walled gardens. (Bob provides an excellent set of links so you can read it about it on your own and correct my misrepresentation.)

Bob notes elsewhere that these cases are well-timed for discussion at David Isenberg’s Freedom2Connect. (I’m speaking at it and, yes, I feel good about plugging it. It’s not a product placement if you mean it and you’re not getting paid for it.) [Technorati tags: frankston f2c brandx]

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