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No Sight Like Hindsight: The 1996 Act And The View Ten Years Later, Donna N. Lampert
No Sight Like Hindsight: The 1996 Act And The View Ten Years Later, Donna N. Lampert
Federal Communications Law Journal
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Looking Backwards And Looking Forwards In Contemplating The Next Rewrite Of The Communications Act, Johannes M. Bauer, Steven S. Wildman
Looking Backwards And Looking Forwards In Contemplating The Next Rewrite Of The Communications Act, Johannes M. Bauer, Steven S. Wildman
Federal Communications Law Journal
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Swallows, Sausages, And The 1996 Act, Daniel B. Phythyon
Swallows, Sausages, And The 1996 Act, Daniel B. Phythyon
Federal Communications Law Journal
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Politics And Telecommunications, Larry Pressler
Politics And Telecommunications, Larry Pressler
Federal Communications Law Journal
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Anticipating Regulation Of New Telecommunications Technologies: An Argument For The European Model, Jessica Finley
Anticipating Regulation Of New Telecommunications Technologies: An Argument For The European Model, Jessica Finley
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
This paper argues that the United States should look to the European Community in order to rework its telecommunications regulatory structure. More specifically, the United States should reconsider its current system of regulating various telecommunications sectors separately and follow the European Commission by developing a "single regulatory framework." By regulating the telecommunications transmission separately from telecommunications content, the United States can better anticipate emerging technologies rather than struggling to catch up with new technologies as they exceed the reach of the current regulatory framework. Part II will discuss the U.S. and European telecommunications regulatory frameworks. Part III will discuss the …
Why Have A Telecommunications Law? Anti-Discrimination Norms In Communications, Tim Wu
Why Have A Telecommunications Law? Anti-Discrimination Norms In Communications, Tim Wu
Faculty Scholarship
This paper describes a vision of what telecommunications laws’ central goals should be in coming decades, and what kind of legal instruments will serve those goals. The telecommunications law, I suggest, has been preoccupied with three projects: allocating rights, managing discrimination, and achieving various social goals, like indecency regulation. This paper argues that in the future the main point of the telecommunications law should be as an anti-discrimination regime, and that the main challenge for regulators will be getting the anti-discrimination rules right.
The view advanced here, while much popularized over the last decade, has deeper roots reaching back to …