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Free Speech And High Tech, Francis Dummer Fisher
Free Speech And High Tech, Francis Dummer Fisher
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Technologies of Freedom by Ithiel de Sola Pool and Teletext and Videotex in the United States: Market Potential, Technology, Public Policy Issues by John Tydeman, Hubert Lipinski, Richard P. Adler, Michael Nyhan and Laurence Zwimpfer.
Restrictions On Public Broadcasters' Rights To Editorialize, Susan H. Williams
Restrictions On Public Broadcasters' Rights To Editorialize, Susan H. Williams
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Steps Toward A European Agreement On Satellite Broadcasting, Frits W. Hondius
Steps Toward A European Agreement On Satellite Broadcasting, Frits W. Hondius
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article is a progress report, written at the beginning of 1983. It is about the unfolding of a new communications medium, satellite broadcasting, in Europe. It is very probable that by the time of publication, many new developments will have taken place. However, this analysis may still be helpful later on to allow those responsible for the development and use of this powerful new channel of communication to know what the expectations and apprehensions were in 1983. Feedback from history is indispensable to builders of the future, provided that someone is willing to commit to paper a record of …
Direct Television Broadcasting And The Quest For Communication Equality, Howard C. Anawalt
Direct Television Broadcasting And The Quest For Communication Equality, Howard C. Anawalt
Michigan Journal of International Law
In the immediate past modem communication means such as efficient telephone and television systems have been viewed as the luxuries of well developed economies. Rapid advances in the field of communications and computer technologies have changed this basic outlook. Now, it is possible to use these technologies as tools of economic growth in both developed and developing countries. This is primarily because cost has gone down while efficiency has gone up. A recent article concerning small computers demonstrates the point. "If the aircraft industry had developed as spectacularly as the computer industry over the past twenty-five years, a Boeing 767 …
Jamming And The Law Of International Communications, Rochelle B. Price
Jamming And The Law Of International Communications, Rochelle B. Price
Michigan Journal of International Law
The Soviet Union began to jam Western radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union in 1948. Jamming has continued to be a problem since then, though not a constant one; over the years, the level of jamming has varied in relation to East-West tensions but more particularly in consonance with internal and external crises. As the post-war international debate concerned with virtually all aspects of modem communications has evolved, jamming has become one focus of the free flow of information- national sovereignty debate. Though seldom completely effective, jamming is a sufficiently large-scale and controversial practice to warrant international attention today, as …