Interim update on interim FAA policy As we reported earlier this year, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has opened a proceeding looking at “best practices” for the commercial and private use of drones. NTIA’s first multistakeholder confab was held here in Washington on August 3 to explore some of the questions on the table; more meetings are set for coming months. The NTIA proceeding is looking to the future. But we here in the CommLawBlog bunker are still getting questions about what the present status of drone use is, particularly for newsgathering. The answer, it appears, is contained in a brief memo issued by an FAA official a few months ago. The memo answers three questions about the “media use of UAS”. As attentive readers will recall, “UAS” (short for “unmanned aircraft systems”) is FAA-speak for what many of us know as “drones”. The questions posed are: whether members…
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