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2016

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Misrepresentation And The Fcc, Brian C. Murchison Sep 2016

Misrepresentation And The Fcc, Brian C. Murchison

Brian C. Murchison

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United States Media Law Update, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Rachael Jones May 2016

United States Media Law Update, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Rachael Jones

Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky

In June 2015 the United States Supreme Court completed what was hailed as its most ‘liberal term of the ages’, issuing major decisions on controversial issues, such as same-sex marriage, affirmative action and the Affordable Care Act. The Court’s free press jurisprudence, however, remained largely unchanged after its last term. The Court did not decide any significant press cases. Instead, the Court sidestepped the opportunity to resolve important questions about the constitutional limits on the prosecution of threats made via social media in one notable case, and set a new, more speech-protective standard for determining when a law is content-based …

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Usage-Based Pricing, Zero-Rating, And The Future Of Broadband Innovation, Daniel A. Lyons Feb 2016

Usage-Based Pricing, Zero-Rating, And The Future Of Broadband Innovation, Daniel A. Lyons

Daniel Lyons

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Title Ii Reclassification Is Rate Regulation, Daniel A. Lyons Feb 2016

Title Ii Reclassification Is Rate Regulation, Daniel A. Lyons

Daniel Lyons

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Innovations In Mobile Broadband Pricing, Daniel Lyons Dec 2015

Innovations In Mobile Broadband Pricing, Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons

The FCC’s net neutrality rules sought to limit interference by broadband service providers in markets for Internet-based content and applications. But to do so, the Commission significantly reduced the amount of innovation possible in the broadband service market. Within limits, broadband providers may offer different plans that vary the quantity of service available to customers, as well as the quality of that service. But they generally cannot vary the service itself: with limited exceptions, broadband providers must offer customers access to all lawful Internet traffic, or none at all. 

This Article explores the way in which this all-or-nothing homogenization of the American broadband product differs from innovative experiments taking …

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Can Dna Be Speech?, Jorge R. Roig Dec 2015

Can Dna Be Speech?, Jorge R. Roig

Jorge R Roig

DNA is generally regarded as the basic building block of life itself. In the most fundamental sense, DNA is nothing more than a chemical compound, albeit a very complex and peculiar one. DNA is an information-carrying molecule. The specific sequence of base pairs contained in a DNA molecule carries with it genetic information, and encodes for the creation of particular proteins. When taken as a whole, the DNA contained in a single human cell is a complete blueprint and instruction manual for the creation of that human being.
In this article we discuss myriad current and developing ways in which …

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