Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Net Neutrality; and Telecommunications
Substrate neutrality
| Title: | Substrate neutrality (ID: CSD4556) | | Author(s): | Susan Crawford | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | For a generation of intellectual property scholars, communications issues were peripheral. The telephone wires were humming along, doing their jobs -- what really mattered were Hollywood's attempts to control formerly unregulated uses of content. Now communications issues have come to be central. As we've discussed in the past, communications law is to this networked age as intellectual property law was to the information age and labor law was to the industrial age. | | View this resource: | |
Good Fences Make Bad Broadband
| Title: | Good Fences Make Bad Broadband (ID: CSD4531) | | Author(s): | John Windhausen, Jr. (Telepoly) | | Source: | Public Knowledge | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2006) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The genius of the Internet is its promise of unlimited accessibility. With very limited exceptions, any consumer with an Internet connection and a computer can visit any web site, attach any device, post any content, and provide any service. While the openness of the Internet is universally praised, it is no longer guaranteed, at least for broadband services. Recent Supreme Court and FCC rulings define broadband networks as unregulated "information services," which means that the operators of broadband networks are no longer under any legal obligation to keep their networks open to all Internet content, services and equipment. | | View this resource: | |
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