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Promoting Innovation To Prevent The Internet From Becoming A Wasteland, Zoe Baird May 2003

Promoting Innovation To Prevent The Internet From Becoming A Wasteland, Zoe Baird

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Revisiting The Vast Wasteland, Newton N. Minow, Fred H. Cate May 2003

Revisiting The Vast Wasteland, Newton N. Minow, Fred H. Cate

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


From Vast Wasteland To Electronic Garden: Responsibilities In The New Video Environment, Charles M. Firestone May 2003

From Vast Wasteland To Electronic Garden: Responsibilities In The New Video Environment, Charles M. Firestone

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Avast Ye Wasteland: Reflections On America’S Most Famous Exercise In “Public Interest” Piracy, Robert Corn-Revere May 2003

Avast Ye Wasteland: Reflections On America’S Most Famous Exercise In “Public Interest” Piracy, Robert Corn-Revere

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Forty Years Of Wandering In The Wasteland, Nicholas Johnson May 2003

Forty Years Of Wandering In The Wasteland, Nicholas Johnson

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Promoting The Public Interest In The Digital Era, Henry Geller May 2003

Promoting The Public Interest In The Digital Era, Henry Geller

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Tv: A Vast Oasis Of Public Interest Programming, Edward O. Fritts May 2003

Tv: A Vast Oasis Of Public Interest Programming, Edward O. Fritts

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Electronic Oases Take Root In Mr. Minow's Vast Wasteland, Edward J. Markey May 2003

Electronic Oases Take Root In Mr. Minow's Vast Wasteland, Edward J. Markey

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Manhattan, Cass R. Sunstein May 2003

Manhattan, Cass R. Sunstein

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Measuring Quality Television, Russ Taylor May 2003

Measuring Quality Television, Russ Taylor

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Regulating Speech Across Borders: Technology Vs. Values, Matthew Fagin Apr 2003

Regulating Speech Across Borders: Technology Vs. Values, Matthew Fagin

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

The disfavored status within international law of unilateral state-based regulations that target extraterritorial actors arises from the inherent challenges such actions represent to state sovereignty. In the context of the Internet, the complexity of choice-of-law analysis is heightened: regulations imposed by one state have the potential to effectively block communications to citizens of all states and undermine the conflicting regulatory aims of neighboring states. Early legal commentators built upon this cascading chilling effect of state-based regulation to proclaim both the futility and illegitimacy of state-based action in the online environment. Subsequent scholars have demonstrated the commensurability of state-based online regulation …


The “Vast Wasteland” In Retrospect, Joel Rosenbloom Apr 2003

The “Vast Wasteland” In Retrospect, Joel Rosenbloom

Federal Communications Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Legacy Of The Federal Communications Commission’S Computer Inquiries, Robert Cannon Mar 2003

The Legacy Of The Federal Communications Commission’S Computer Inquiries, Robert Cannon

Federal Communications Law Journal

The FCC and the computer industry have learned much in the 35 years since the agency first began to regulate computer networks. Safeguards were imposed on common carriers for the benefit of the networks. This Article examines the so-called Computer Inquiries and how they have repeatedly re-examined and redefined the nature of the regulatory treatment of computer networks over communications networks. The Author reviews Computer I, in which the FCC first attempted to divide the world technologically between computers that ran communications networks ("pure communications") and computers at the end of telephone lines with which people interacted ("pure data processing"). …