Rethinking rights and regulations : institutional responses to new communication technologies / edited by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Steven S. Wildman.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cranor, Lorrie Faith.

Wildman, Steven S.

Conference Name:

Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (30th : 2002 : Alexandria, Va.)

Series:

Telecommunications Policy Research Conference series.

Published in association with the Telecommunications policy research conference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Social aspects--Congresses.

Information technology.

Information technology--Management--Congresses.

Internet--Government policy--Congresses.

Internet.

Telecommunication policy--Congresses.

Telecommunication policy.

Information society--Congresses.

Information society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 446 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributors to this volume examine issues raised by the intersection of new communications technologies and public policy in this post-boom, post-bust era. Originally presented at the 30th Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC 2002)--traditionally a showcase for the best academic research on this topic--their work combines hard data and deep analysis to explore the dynamic interplay between technological development and society. The chapters in the first section consider the ways society conceptualizes new information technologies and their implications for law and policy, examining the common metaphor of "cyberspace as place," alternative definitions of the Internet, the concept of a namespace, and measures of diffusion. The chapters in the second section discuss how technological change may force the rethinking of legal rights; topics considered include spectrum rights, intellectual property, copyright and "paracopyright," and the abridgement of constitutional rights by commercial rights in ISP rules. Chapters in the third and final section examine the constant adjustment and reinterpretation of regulations in response to technological change, considering, among other subjects, liability regimes for common carriers and the 1996 detariffing rule, privacy and enhanced 911, and the residual effect of state ownership on privatized telecommunication carriers. The policy implications of Rethinking Rights and Regulations are clear: major institutional changes may be the necessary response to major advances in telecommunications technology.

Contents:

Foreword / Robert Cannon

Introduction / Lorrie Faith Cranor and Steven S. Wildman

Cyberspace as place / Dan Hunter

Place and cyberspace / Mark A. Lemley

Will the real internet please stand up? An attorney's quest to define the internet / Robert Gannon

Governance in namespaces / Stefan Bechtold

Geographic dispersion of commercial internet use / Chris Foreman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein

Some economics of wireless communications / Yochai Benkler

Spectrum management: property rights, markets, and the commons / Gerald R. Faulhaber and David J. Farber

"Functionality" as the distinction between patent and copyright subject matter / Dennis S. Karjala

Advantage ISP: terms of service as media law / Sandra Braman and Stephanie Lynch

Anticircumvention misuse / Dan L. Burk

Improving network reliability

liability rules must recognize investor risk/reward strategies / Barbara A. Cherry

Emergent locations: implementing wireless 9-1-1 in Texas, Virginia, and Ontario / David J. Phillips, Priscilla M. Regan, and Colin J. Bennett

Creative destruction in emerging markets: privatizing telecoms and the state / Lee W. McKnight, Paul M. Vaaler, Burkhard N. Schrage, and Raul L. Katz

Potential relevance to the United States of the European Union's newly adopted regulatory framework for telecommunications / J. Scott Marcus.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-26216-9

0-262-27094-3

0-585-47983-6

OCLC:

53816790