Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age (Hardcover)

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.

在過去的二十年中，互聯網的使用已變得無所不在，但政府、立法者及其監管機構一直努力跟上快速變化的互聯網技術和使用方式。在這項開創性的合作中，監管律師克里斯托弗·馬斯登（Christopher Marsden）和計算機科學家伊恩·布朗（Ian Brown）分析了「代碼」的監管塑造，即互聯網的技術環境，以實現更經濟高效和社會公正的監管。他們研究了五個「困難案例」，以說明監管危機：隱私和數據保護；版權和創意激勵；審查制度；社交網絡和用戶生成的內容；以及網絡中立性。

作者描述了互聯網治理日益「多利益相關者化」的情況，其中用戶團體主張在封閉的商業-政府對話中獲得代表，力求引入基於權利和技術專家觀點。布朗和馬斯登從這五個案例中的監管和互操作性失敗中總結出更好的未來監管的教訓。他們得出結論，政府、用戶和運作更好的市場需要一種更聰明的「生產者-消費者法」方法。生產者-消費者法將旨在增強公共財生產的競爭力，包括創新、公共安全和基本民主權利。