Regulating code : good governance and better regulation in the information age / Ian Brown and Christopher T. Marsden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Ian (Internet consultant), author.

Contributor:

Marsden, Christopher T.

Series:

Information revolution & global politics

Information revolution and global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Law and legislation.

Computer networks.

Programming languages (Electronic computers).

Internet--Law and legislation.

Internet.

Information policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 267 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2013]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking collaboration, regulatory lawyer Christopher Marsden and computer scientist Ian Brown analyze the regulatory shaping of "code"--The technological environment of the Internet -- to achieve more economically efficient and socially just regulation. They examine five "hard cases" that illustrate the regulatory crisis: privacy and data protection; copyright and creativity incentives; censorship; social networks and user-generated content; and net neutrality. The authors describe the increasing "multistakeholderization" of Internet governance, in which user groups argue for representation in the closed business-government dialogue, seeking to bring in both rights-based and technologically expert perspectives. Brown and Marsden draw out lessons for better future regulation from the regulatory and interoperability failures illustrated by the five cases. They conclude that governments, users, and better functioning markets need a smarter "prosumer law" approach. Prosumer law would be designed to enhance the competitive production of public goods, including innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights.

Contents:

1 Mapping the Hard Cases 1

2 Code Constraints on Regulation and Competition 21

3 Privacy and Data Protection 47

4 Copyrights 69

5 Censors 93

6 Social Networking Services 117

7 Smart Pipes: Net Neutrality and Innovation 139

8 Comparative Case Study Analysis 163

9 Holistic Regulation of the Interoperable Internet 183.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0262312948

9780262312943

OCLC:

854994614

Publisher Number:

9780262312943

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.