Rethinking Rights and Regulations - Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-262-03314-5
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 753 g

Reihe: Telecommunications Policy Research Conference

Contributors to this volume explore the dynamics of new communications technologies and public policy; from TPRC 2002.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cranor, Lorrie Faith

Wildman, Steven S.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Informationstechnik, IT-Industrie

Über Autor(innen)

Wildman, Steven S.
Steven S. Wildman is James H. Quello Professor of Telecommunication Studies and
Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management
and Law at Michigan State University.

Cranor, Lorrie Faith
Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Principal Technical Staff Member in the Secure Systems
Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research.

Steven S. Wildman is James H. Quello Professor of Telecommunication Studies and Director of the James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law at Michigan State University.