Michael Joseph Copps (born April 23, 1940) is a former commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent agency of the United States government.

He is currently a special adviser to the Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause, a nonpartisan citizen advocacy organization.

He served as chief of staff to Senator Ernest Hollings for almost 12 years before his appointment to the United States Commerce Department as assistant secretary.

On January 18, 2011 the FCC and the United States Department of Justice allowed Comcast to buy NBC Universal.

I would be true to neither the statute nor to everything I have fought for here at the Commission over the past decade if I did not dissent from what I consider to be a damaging and potentially dangerous deal (..) At the end of the day, the public interest requires more-much more-than it is receiving.