Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Series editor’s preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Acronyms......Page 17
1 Introduction......Page 22
The commercialisation of the public Internet......Page 25
Information and communication technologies......Page 27
Globalisation and sovereignty......Page 32
Regulation......Page 36
Information market failure: network effects......Page 37
Regulatory arbitrage......Page 39
Sovereignty, law and international relations......Page 41
Structure of the collection: regulating the GIS......Page 44
Economic efficiency and rights-based regulation......Page 47
International institutional standard setting......Page 49
Constitutionalism, legitimacy and self-regulation......Page 51
Notes......Page 54
Part I Theoretical perspectives......Page 62
2 The role of the public sphere in the information society......Page 64
The roots of public sphere theory......Page 69
Privacy......Page 75
Notes......Page 76
3 In search of the self......Page 78
Defining self-regulation......Page 79
Regulation and regulatory tools......Page 81
Cost—benefit analysis......Page 83
Taxonomy of self-regulation......Page 85
Lessons from other industries......Page 87
The Internet......Page 88
The ‘self’ of Internet self-regulation......Page 89
Justification for Internet regulation: illegal and harmful content......Page 90
Self-regulatory mechanism......Page 91
Current examples and Internet practices......Page 92
Conclusions and recommendations: systematic self-regulation as a foundation......Page 95
Notes......Page 96
A confrontation among actors......Page 100
The political process......Page 101
A locked society?......Page 102
Rules created by authorities......Page 103
Rules created by individuals......Page 104
Rules created by economic interactions......Page 105
The regulatory mechanism......Page 106
Impact of the Information Age on regulatory mechanism......Page 107
Notes......Page 108
Part II The limits of telecommunications regulation......Page 112
Introduction......Page 114
Regulating overall retail prices......Page 115
Anti-competitive pricing......Page 116
The early days......Page 117
The network price cap and deregulation......Page 119
Evaluation of UK experience to date......Page 121
The growing importance of access......Page 123
Telecommunications law versus competition law......Page 125
How far can deregulation go?......Page 126
6 Realising social goals in connectivity and content......Page 130
Paradigm crash......Page 131
Fairness......Page 132
Social goals: connectivity and content......Page 133
Telecommunications......Page 134
Internet regulation—broadcasting and telecommunications Mark III......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 136
Notes......Page 137
Not understanding the wood for the trees......Page 138
The Internet changes everything—or does it?......Page 139
What are the economic implications of this change?......Page 140
What needs to be done?......Page 143
Simple analysis, difficult solution......Page 144
Conclusion......Page 145
8 The rise and decline of the international telecommunications regime......Page 146
The organizational landscape......Page 147
Regime attributes......Page 153
Incremental challenges to the ancien regime......Page 161
Regime transformation......Page 169
External pressures on regime relevance......Page 175
Internal pressures on regime relevance......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 192
Notes......Page 193
Background......Page 198
Goals for Seattle......Page 199
What went wrong?......Page 200
Trade, the Internet, and the New Economy......Page 201
The old institutions, principles, and norms of telecom......Page 202
The breakup of AT&T and the erosion of monopoly......Page 203
The Empire strikes back......Page 204
Internet and convergence: the New Economy......Page 205
Towards next time......Page 207
Notes......Page 209
Part III International self-regulation and standard setting......Page 212
What is Internet governance?......Page 214
A context—the DNS ‘wars’......Page 216
The traditional Internet standards process......Page 223
Other standards (and quasi-standards) processes......Page 226
Where is the Internet heading?......Page 228
Notes......Page 230
11 Semi-private international rulemaking......Page 232
Domain names: the underlying issues......Page 234
The registration hierarchy......Page 235
The DN resolution hierarchy......Page 236
Domain names and trademarks......Page 237
Enter WIPO......Page 239
The consultation process......Page 241
Process difficulties......Page 243
WIPO process compared to other types of rulemaking......Page 246
Summary and conclusion......Page 250
Note......Page 252
Part IV Standard setting and competition policy......Page 254
12 Will the Internet remake antitrust law?......Page 256
Notes......Page 263
13 The problems of the third way......Page 264
The Java technologies and the market structure......Page 265
Sun’s ISO standardization plan......Page 267
The problems of maintenance and intellectual property rights......Page 269
The collapse of Sun’s ISO efforts......Page 272
Some implications of Sun’s Java standardization experience......Page 274
Notes......Page 276
Part V The limits of government regulation......Page 284
‘Sharing the same bed, but not the same dream’......Page 286
The international patchwork......Page 287
A different view......Page 288
Grasping the pen and the gun......Page 289
The Central Propaganda Department......Page 290
Bureaucratic rivalries......Page 291
Commerce and the Party-state......Page 292
Media regulation without law......Page 293
The audiovisual tide......Page 294
The firewall......Page 296
Filtering in, filtering out......Page 297
Dilemmas of ownership......Page 298
Notes......Page 299
15 Freedom versus access rights in a European context......Page 306
Fundamental right to freedom of expression......Page 307
European Union (EU) and national pluralism law......Page 309
National rules to prevent vertical integration......Page 313
A common framework for general authorisations and individual licences in the field of telecommunications services......Page 314
Access rights to essential facilities......Page 315
Programme networking......Page 316
State aid......Page 317
Pluralism in the changing technological and economic environment......Page 318
Recent Council of Europe developments on media pluralism and access......Page 319
Notes......Page 320
Democracy and the media......Page 326
Variations on media pluralism......Page 328
Media guidance and pluralism......Page 329
The implications for new media......Page 331
Regulatory possibilities......Page 333
Five challenges for policy-makers......Page 338
Old law or new law?......Page 339
Proportionality......Page 341
Flexibility......Page 342
Preserving values......Page 343
Transnational cooperation......Page 345
Notes......Page 347
Bibliography......Page 354
Index......Page 380