Rethinking Rights and Regulations: Institutional Responses to New Communications Technologies (Telecommunications Policy Research Conference)

Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
I Evolving Conceptualizations of the New Communications Arena......Page 23
1 Cyberspace as Place......Page 25
2 Place and Cyberspace......Page 51
3 Will the Real Internet Please Stand Up? An Attorney’s Quest to Define the Internet......Page 77
4 Governance in Namespaces......Page 103
5 The Geographic Dispersion of Commercial Internet Use......Page 135
II The Evolution of Legal Rights......Page 169
6 Some Economics of Wireless Communications......Page 171
7 Spectrum Management: Property Rights, Markets, and the Commons......Page 215
8 “Functionality” as the Distinction Between Patent and Copyright Subject Matter......Page 249
9 Advantage ISP: Terms of Service as Media Law......Page 271
10 Anticircumvention Misuse......Page 301
III Regulatory Innovation and Responses to Technological Change......Page 329
11 Improving Network Reliability—Liability Rules Must Recognize Investor Risk/Reward Strategies......Page 331
12 Emergent Locations: Implementing Wireless 9-1-1 in Texas, Virginia, and Ontario......Page 357
13 Creative Destruction in Emerging Markets: Privatizing Telecoms and the State......Page 389
14 The Potential Relevance to the United States of the European Union’s Newly Adopted Regulatory Framework for Telecommunications......Page 419
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