Internet Co-Regulation: European Law, Regulatory Governance And Legitimacy In Cyberspace

Cover......Page 1
INTERNET CO-REGULATION......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 14
TABLE OF LEGISLATION......Page 18
1 States, firms and legitimacy of regulation: insoluble issues?......Page 26
The incoming tide of Internet co-regulation......Page 30
Methodological approach: WGIG and scoping Internet governance......Page 39
Mapping the Internet for regulatory innovation......Page 41
Geographical analysis based on national and international boundaries......Page 42
Geographical analysis based on the physical nodes in the networks......Page 43
Temporal analysis based on the type of control based on its success or failure over time......Page 44
Disciplinary analysis based on the system logic of each ‘part’ or layer of the Internet......Page 45
Holistic approaches mapping technical constraints on regulation......Page 46
Technical mapping: horizontal approach to Internet standards......Page 47
Conclusion: mapping from an interdisciplinary perspective......Page 48
Methodology for ‘really really responsive regulation’......Page 49
Chapter 3: Self-organization......Page 63
Chapter 4: Self-regulation and standards......Page 65
Chapter 5: Co-regulation and medium law......Page 66
Chapter 6: Censorship......Page 67
Conclusion: soft law and the Internet......Page 68
Introduction......Page 71
Examining the origins of Internet co-regulation......Page 72
A typology of regulation......Page 76
Towards a typology of self- and co-regulation......Page 83
Judicial review and co-regulation......Page 88
Sticks not carrots: why Americans don’t ‘do’ co-regulation......Page 91
Conclusion: co-regulation and constitutionalism......Page 95
3 Self-organization and social networks......Page 96
Web2.0 and alternative content regulation......Page 98
Bebo......Page 102
Second Life......Page 107
Digital copyright......Page 114
Conclusion: governance and self-organization as examples of social entrepreneurship......Page 124
Introducing Internet standard setting......Page 126
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)......Page 129
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)......Page 132
Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)......Page 138
W3C Problems Semantic web standards......Page 140
ICANN and addressing infrastructure......Page 142
National registrar Nominet......Page 148
Conclusion: ‘pure’ self-regulation and moving targets......Page 153
5 Content regulation and the Internet......Page 155
Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS)......Page 157
Independent Mobile Classification Board (IMCB)......Page 164
Co-regulation in practice: Association for Video On Demand (ATVOD)......Page 172
Nederlands Instituut voor de Classificatie van Audiovisuele Media (NICAM)......Page 178
Pan European Game Information (PEGI)......Page 182
Conclusion: towards pan-sectoral, pan-European self-rating?......Page 187
Introducing Internet filtering and website blocking......Page 189
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)......Page 193
International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE)......Page 203
UK and European blocklists......Page 207
UK ‘Cleanfeed’ and CAIC......Page 208
European CAIC......Page 212
Towards a pan-European CAIC fudge?......Page 217
Conclusion: is co-regulation emerging and is it durable?......Page 221
Analysis across case studies......Page 223
Co-regulation failure in practice: Digital Economy Act 2010......Page 235
ISP judicial review of DEAct......Page 241
Conclusion: better regulation and co-regulation......Page 244
Polycentric or just eccentric?......Page 246
Changing regulatory agendas......Page 250
‘Self-organization 2.0’: status quo with increased zuser-generated controls......Page 253
Option 2: legislation2.0......Page 254
Risk and regulation......Page 256
Human rights and communications......Page 259
Conclusion: co-regulation and constitutionalism......Page 266
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 268
INDEX......Page 302