Rethinking Rights and Regulations: Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies (Hardcover)

Description:

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.

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.

 

Table of Contents:

Contributors	vii
	Foreword Robert Cannon	ix
	Introduction Lorrie Faith Cranor and Steven S. Wildman	xi
I	Evolving Conceptualizations of the New Communications Arena	1
1	Cyberspace as Place Dan Hunter	3
2	Place and Cyberspace Mark A. Lemley	29
3	Will the Real Internet Please Stand Up? An Attorney's Quest to Define the Internet Robert Cannon	55
4	Governance in Namespaces Stefan Bechtold	81
5	The Geographic Dispersion of Commercial Internet Use Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein	113
II	The Evolution of Legal Rights	147
6	Some Economics of Wireless Communications Yochai Benkler	149
7	Spectrum Management: Property Rights, Markets, and the Commons Gerald R. Faulhaber and David J. Farber	193
8	"Functionality" as the Distinction between Patent and Copyright Subject Matter Dennis S. Karjala	227
9	Advantage ISP: Terms of Service as Media Law Sandra Braman and Stephanie Lynch	249
10	Anticircumvention Misuse Dan L. Burk	279
III	Regulatory Innovation and Responses to Technological Change	307
11	Improving Network Reliability — Liability Rules Must Recognize Investor Risk/Reward Strategies Barbara A. Cherry	309
12	Emergent Locations: Implementing Wireless 9-1-1 in Texas, Virginia, and Ontario David J. Phillips, Priscilla M. Regan and Colin J. Bennett	335
13	Creative Destruction in Emerging Markets: Privatizing Telecoms and the State Lee W. McKnight, Paul M. Vaaler, Burkhard N. Schrage and Raul L. Katz	367
14	The Potential Relevance to the United States of the European Union's Newly Adopted Regulatory Framework for Telecommunications J. Scott Marcus	397
	Index	429

描述：
本書的貢獻者們探討了新通訊技術與公共政策在這個後繁榮、後衰退時代的交叉點所引發的問題。這些研究最初是在第30屆通訊、資訊和互聯網政策研究會議（TPRC 2002）上發表的，該會議傳統上是這一主題上最好的學術研究的展示場所。他們的工作結合了硬數據和深入分析，探索了技術發展和社會之間的動態相互作用。

第一部分的章節考慮了社會如何概念化新的信息技術及其對法律和政策的影響，探討了“網絡空間作為地方”的常見隱喻、互聯網的替代定義、命名空間的概念以及擴散的衡量指標。第二部分的章節討論了技術變革如何迫使重新思考法律權利的問題，包括頻譜權利、知識產權、版權和“準版權”，以及商業權利在ISP規則中對憲法權利的削弱。第三部分的章節考察了對技術變革作出的不斷調整和重新解釋的規定，包括普通運營商的責任制度和1996年的去價格管制規則、隱私和增強型911服務，以及國有化對私有化電信運營商的剩餘影響。《重新思考權利和規定》的政策意涵是明確的：對於電信技術的重大進步，可能需要進行重大的制度變革。

Lorrie Faith Cranor是AT&T Labs-Research的主要技術人員。

Steven S. Wildman是密歇根州立大學的James H. Quello電信研究教授，也是James H.和Mary B. Quello電信管理和法律中心的主任。

目錄：
貢獻者
前言：Robert Cannon
引言：Lorrie Faith Cranor和Steven S. Wildman
第一部分
第一章
第二章
第三章
第二部分
第四章
第五章
第六章
第三部分
第七章
第八章
第九章