The new information industry : regulatory challenges and the First Amendment / Richard Klingler.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Klingler, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Information services industry--United States.
• Information services industry.
• Information services--Law and legislation.
• United States.
• Telecommunication--United States.
• Telecommunication.
• Information services--Law and legislation--United States.
• Telecommunication--Law and legislation--United States.
• Telecommunication--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

x, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1996]

Summary:

Rapid developments in technology are enormously restructuring the industries that control and use electronic communications. How government regulates this emerging information industry will have far-reaching effects on how citizens are able to send, receive, and use information. In this book, Richard Klingler surveys these developments and traces the evolution of regulation that affects these new information and video services, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He analyzes how the varied regulatory regimes that developed over the past decades have often failed to respond to recent developments, and he suggests broad structural changes to current regulatory strategies.

Contents:

• The transformation of electronic communication
• Regulating electronic communication
• New forms of communication
• Structural reform of regulation
• Extending First Amendment protections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-202) and index.

ISBN:

• 0815749449
• 0815749430

OCLC:

33245161