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Zero-Rating, Net Neutrality And The Progressive Realisation Of Human Rights, Balaji Subramaniam
Zero-Rating, Net Neutrality And The Progressive Realisation Of Human Rights, Balaji Subramaniam
Indian Journal of Law and Technology
The net neutrality debate today, specifically with respect to zero-rating, is invariably characterised as a clash between the noble aspiration to universalise access on one hand, and a handful of “core values of the internet” on the other. Such framing makes for a lively dialogue – neutrality proponents can extol the virtues of an “open internet”, and can argue that access universalisation is impossible, and therefore any failed attempt toward that goal is not worth the risk of permanently altering the nature of the network. Proponents of net neutrality argue that zero-rating would stifle innovation and distort consumer choice to …
Creating Broadband Equity In Rural Wisconsin, Brian T. Coe
Creating Broadband Equity In Rural Wisconsin, Brian T. Coe
Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review
Over 430,000 people throughout the state of Wisconsin cur-rently do not have access to the internet. This "digital divide" is even more prominent in rural communities where broadband is either too slow, too expensive, or simply not available. Wisconsin state law cur-rently restricts local governments from providing this vital utility to their residents. The purpose of this Comment is to help readers un-derstand the impact of Wisconsin law surrounding local government public broadband programs, and how they can be changed to offer a more equitable menu of internet access to rural communities. This Comment will discuss the restrictive statutes that …
Municipal Fiber In The United States: A Financial Assessment, Christopher S. Yoo, Jesse Lambert, Timothy P. Pfenninger
Municipal Fiber In The United States: A Financial Assessment, Christopher S. Yoo, Jesse Lambert, Timothy P. Pfenninger
All Faculty Scholarship
Despite growing interest in broadband provided by municipally owned and operated fiber-to-the-home networks, the academic literature has yet to undertake a systematic assessment of these projects’ financial performance. To fill this gap, we utilize municipalities’ official reports to offer an empirical evaluation of the financial performance of every municipal fiber project in the U.S. operating in 2010 through 2019. An analysis of the actual performance of the resulting fifteen-project panel dataset reveals that none of the projects generated sufficient nominal cash flow in the short run to maintain solvency without infusions of additional cash from outside sources or debt relief. …
Broadband In The Mountain State: Connectivity Linked To Local Options, Denali S. Hendrick
Broadband In The Mountain State: Connectivity Linked To Local Options, Denali S. Hendrick
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Gap In Internet Access In Sri Lanka Violates Human Rights, Gracie Kreth
Gap In Internet Access In Sri Lanka Violates Human Rights, Gracie Kreth
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
Back To Benevolence: The Case For Internet Access In Nevada's Juvenile Detention Centers, Michael Coggeshall
Back To Benevolence: The Case For Internet Access In Nevada's Juvenile Detention Centers, Michael Coggeshall
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Beyond Neutrality: How Zero Rating Can (Sometimes) Advance User Choice, Innovation, And Democratic Participation, Bj Ard
Maryland Law Review
Over four billion people across the globe cannot afford Internet access. Their economic disadvantages are compounded by their inability to utilize the communicative, educational, and commercial tools that most Internet users take for granted. Enter zero rating. Mobile Internet providers in the developing world now waive the data charges for services like Facebook, Wikipedia, or local job-search sites. Despite zero rating’s apparent benefits, many advocates seek to ban the practice as a violation of net neutrality.
This Article argues that zero rating is defensible by net neutrality’s own normative lights. Network neutrality is not about neutrality for its own sake, …
The Supreme Court Performs The Right Notes For Dish In Aereo, Lee B. Burgunder
The Supreme Court Performs The Right Notes For Dish In Aereo, Lee B. Burgunder
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
In American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc., the Supreme Court addressed whether a company publicly performs copyrighted works when it allocates separate antennas on its property to customers who individually decide what shows they each want to watch. This case was hotly debated because it provided a new opportunity for the Court to identify the responsible actors when copyrighted materials are transmitted over the Internet. Unfortunately, the Court ruled against Aereo without clearly articulating governing standards that might inform future decisions, relying instead on what the dissent called a "looks-like-cable-TV" approach. The deficiency has already provided additional ammunition for …
Possible Paradigm Shifts In Broadband Policy, Christopher S. Yoo
Possible Paradigm Shifts In Broadband Policy, Christopher S. Yoo
All Faculty Scholarship
Debates over Internet policy tend to be framed by the way the Internet existed in the mid-1990s, when the Internet first became a mass-market phenomenon. At the risk of oversimplifying, the Internet was initially used by academics and tech-savvy early adopters to send email and browse the web over a personal computer connected to a telephone line via networks interconnected through in a limited way. Since then, the Internet has become much larger and more diverse in terms of users, applications, technologies, and business relationships. More recently, Internet growth has begun to slow both in terms of the number of …
Why Don’T You Take A Seat Away From That Computer?: Why Louisiana Revised Statute 14:91.5 Is Unconstitutional, Eva Conner
Louisiana Law Review
The article analyzes the content of Louisiana Revised Statutes section 14:91.5 which is regarding unlawful use or access of social media and compares it with similar laws across the U.S. It discusses the constitutionality of imposing post-release restrictions on sex offenders who have already completed their sentences. It reflects on Free Speech issues arising from laws restricting Internet access to sex offenders.
Geographically Restricted Streaming Content And Evasion Of Geolocation: The Applicability Of The Copyright Anticircumvention Rules, Jerusha Burnett
Geographically Restricted Streaming Content And Evasion Of Geolocation: The Applicability Of The Copyright Anticircumvention Rules, Jerusha Burnett
Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
A number of methods currently exist or are being developed to determine where Internet users are located geographically when they access a particular webpage. Yet regardless of the precautions taken by website operators to limit the locations from which they allow access, it is likely that users will find ways to gain access to restricted content. Should the evasion of geolocation constitute circumvention of access controls so that § 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") applies? Because location data can properly be considered personally identifiable information ("PII"), this Note argues that § 1201 should not apply absent a …
Open Connectivity, Open Data: Two Dimensions Of The Freedom To Seek, Receive And Impart Information In The New Zealand Bill Of Rights, Jonathon Penney
Open Connectivity, Open Data: Two Dimensions Of The Freedom To Seek, Receive And Impart Information In The New Zealand Bill Of Rights, Jonathon Penney
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Recently, ideas about "rights" to Internet access or connectivity have received growing recognition from governments, legal institutions, and other political actors in several countries, including New Zealand Despite this emerging political and legal recognition, there are few, if any, systematic studies exploring such ideas. This paper aims to change this. First, it offers a theoretical exploration of the idea of a "right" to Internet access, including the diferent versions of such rights talk. Secondly, it examines whether there is any legal basis for such rights claims in New Zealand and ultimately argues that section 14 of the New Zealand Bill …
Supervising Managed Services, James B. Speta
Supervising Managed Services, James B. Speta
Duke Law Journal
Many Internet-access providers simultaneously offer Internet access and other services, such as traditional video channels, video on demand, voice calling, and other emerging services, through a single, converged platform. These other services which can be called "managed services" because the carrier offers them only to its subscribers in a manner designed to ensure some quality of service in many circumstances will compete with services that are offered by unaffiliated parties as applications or services on the Internet. This situation creates an important interaction effect between the domains of Internet access and managed services, an effect that has largely been missing …
Transmitting, Editing, And Communicating: Determining What “The Freedom Of Speech” Encompasses, Stuart Minor Benjamin
Transmitting, Editing, And Communicating: Determining What “The Freedom Of Speech” Encompasses, Stuart Minor Benjamin
Duke Law Journal
How much can one say with confidence about what constitutes "the freedom of speech" that Congress shall not abridge? In this Article, I address that question in the context of the transmission of speech specifically, the regulation of Internet access known as net neutrality. This question has implications both for the future of economic regulation, as more and more activity involves the transmission of bits, and for First Amendment interpretation. As for the latter, the question is what a lawyer or judge can conclude without having to choose among competing conceptions of speech. How far can a basic legal toolkit …
Internet Access Rights: A Brief History And Intellectual Origins, Jonathon Penney
Internet Access Rights: A Brief History And Intellectual Origins, Jonathon Penney
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
If there is anything we have learned from recent protest movements around the world, and the heavy-handed government efforts to block, censor, suspend, and manipulate Internet connectivity, it is that access to the Internet, and its content, is anything but certain, especially when governments feel threatened. Despite these hard truths, the notion that people have a "right" to Internet access gained high-profile international recognition last year. In a report to the United Nations General Assembly in early 2011, Frank La Rue, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, held that Internet access should be recognized as a "human right". …
Legislative And Regulatory Strategies For Providing Consumer Safeguards In A Convergent Information And Communications Marketplace, Rob M. Frieden
Legislative And Regulatory Strategies For Providing Consumer Safeguards In A Convergent Information And Communications Marketplace, Rob M. Frieden
Rob Frieden
Many ventures involved in information, communications and entertainment (“ICE”) industries have begun to expand their array of offered services. Technological convergence, digitization and the ability of the Internet to handle many different service types within a single bitstream make it possible for companies to offer “quadruple play” bundles of wireless and wireline telephony, video, and Internet access services. Financial and efficiency gains from vertical integration, and the search for new revenues to replace declining margins from maturing and newly competitive services, combine to create robust incentives for carriers to diversify. Diversification by ventures typically results in a single company providing …
Privacy, Accountability, And The Cooperating Defendant: Towards A New Role For Internet Access To Court Records, Caren M. Morrison
Privacy, Accountability, And The Cooperating Defendant: Towards A New Role For Internet Access To Court Records, Caren M. Morrison
Vanderbilt Law Review
Now that federal court records are available online, anyone can obtain criminal case files instantly over the Internet. But this unfettered flow of information is in fundamental tension with many goals of the criminal justice system, including the integrity of criminal investigations, the accountability of prosecutors, and the security of witnesses. It has also altered the behavior of prosecutors intent on protecting the identity of cooperating defendants who assist them in investigating other targets. As prosecutors and courts collaborate to obscure the process by which cooperators are recruited and rewarded, Internet availability risks degrading the value of the information obtained …
The Costs And Benefits Of Separating Wireless Telephone Service From Handset Sales And Imposing Network Neutrality Obligations, Rob M. Frieden
The Costs And Benefits Of Separating Wireless Telephone Service From Handset Sales And Imposing Network Neutrality Obligations, Rob M. Frieden
Rob Frieden
Wireless operators in most nations qualify for streamlined regulation when providing telecommunications services and even less government oversight when providing information services, entertainment and electronic publishing. In the United States, Congressional legislation, real or perceived competition and regulator discomfort with ventures that provide both regulated and largely unregulated services contribute to the view that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has no significant regulatory mandate to safeguard the public interest. Such a hands off approach made sense when cellular radiotelephone carriers primarily offered voice and text messaging services in a marketplace with six or more facilities-based competitors in most metropolitan areas. …
Network Rules, Susan P. Crawford
Network Rules, Susan P. Crawford
Law and Contemporary Problems
Crawford compares the debate between the telcos and the online companies over broadband access regimes often called the "network neutrality" debate to the ongoing tussle between intellectual property maximalists and "free culture" advocates which are strikingly parallel sets of arguments. The maximalists claim that creativity comes from lone genuises (the romantic author) who must be given legal incentives to works but intellectual property scholars have carefully examined the incentives of their arguments and have pointed out that granting overly strong property rights to copyright holders might not be socially appropriate. Moreover, the network providers claim that they (the romantic builders) …
A Primer On Network Neutrality, Rob M. Frieden
A Primer On Network Neutrality, Rob M. Frieden
Rob Frieden
This paper will explain the different conceptualizations of network neutrality and why a debate has arisen about whether governments need to establish rules mandating nondiscrimination. The paper will identify what types of price and quality of service discrimination represent legitimate efforts to diversify Internet-mediated services and to satisfy increasingly diverse requirements of content providers and consumers. The paper concludes that while many concerns about network neutrality overstate the potential for harm, ISPs should offer non-neutral services in a fully transparent manner so that regulators can distinguish between actual and induced network congestion as well as other potential harm to content …
Network Neutrality And Its Potential Impact On Next Generation Networks , Rob M. Frieden
Network Neutrality And Its Potential Impact On Next Generation Networks , Rob M. Frieden
Rob Frieden
This paper will examine the network neutrality debate with an eye toward assessing how the Internet will evolve as a major platform for content access and distribution. The paper accepts as necessary and proper many types of price and quality of service discrimination, but also identifies other types of potentially hidden and harmful discrimination. The paper concludes with an identification of best practices in “good” discrimination that should satisfy most network neutrality goals without creating disincentives that might dissuade ISPs from building the infrastructure needed distribution of high bandwidth consuming content such as full motion video.
Universal Broadband In The United States: Is It A Pipe Dream Or Soon-To-Be Reality?, Krista S. Jacobsen
Universal Broadband In The United States: Is It A Pipe Dream Or Soon-To-Be Reality?, Krista S. Jacobsen
Krista S. Jacobsen
Internet access increasingly has been viewed as vital for countries’ economic well-being. In March of 2004, President Bush expressed the view that access to the Internet for all Americans is critical to the country’s economic growth, and he established a goal that every American should have affordable high-speed Internet access by 2007. As of December 2006, however, allegedly only 19.6% of the United States population subscribed to broadband service. This take rate establishes the United States as fifteenth in the world in broadband penetration, behind countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As …
Race, Media Consolidation, And Online Content: The Lack Of Substitutes Available To Media Consumers Of Color, Leonard M. Baynes
Race, Media Consolidation, And Online Content: The Lack Of Substitutes Available To Media Consumers Of Color, Leonard M. Baynes
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In its 2003 media ownership proceedings, the FCC relied on the existence of the Internet to provide justification for radically relaxing the FCC ownership rules. These rules limited the national audience reach of the broadcast licensees and the cross-ownership of different media properties by broadcasters and newspapers. In relaxing these rules, the FCC failed to recognize that a media submarket for African Americans and Latinos/as existed. This separate market is evidenced by the different television viewing habits of African Americans and Latinos/as as compared to Whites and Billboard magazine's delineation of R&B/urban music radio stations as a separate radio station …
Out Of Thin Air: Using First Amendment Public Forum Analysis To Redeem American Broadcasting Regulation, Anthony E. Varona
Out Of Thin Air: Using First Amendment Public Forum Analysis To Redeem American Broadcasting Regulation, Anthony E. Varona
Articles
American television and radio broadcasters are uniquely privileged among Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensees. Exalted as public trustees by the 1934 Communications Act, broadcasters pay virtually nothing for the use of their channels of public radiofrequency spectrum, unlike many other FCC licensees who have paid billions of dollars for similar digital spectrum. Congress envisioned a social contract of sorts between broadcast licensees and the communities they served. In exchange for their free licenses, broadcast stations were charged with providing a platform for a "free marketplace of ideas" that would cultivate a democratically engaged and enlightened citizenry through the broadcasting of …
Institutions Of Learning Or Havens For Illegal Activities: How The Supreme Court Views Libraries, Raizel Liebler
Institutions Of Learning Or Havens For Illegal Activities: How The Supreme Court Views Libraries, Raizel Liebler
Northern Illinois University Law Review
This article examines the three major Supreme Court cases, Brown, Pico, and American Library Association, which span a period of almost 30 years and address the appropriate role of libraries and the activities allowed within library premises. The scope of the cases includes the legality of silent protests in libraries, the removal of print materials from libraries, and implementing filters for Internet content. These cases exemplify the important struggle over the larger role of libraries in society. The Court has attempted to walk a fine line between viewing libraries as purveyors of high culture and dangerous places. An uncertainty about …
Changing Channels And Bridging Divides: The Failure And Redemption Of American Broadcast Television Regulation, Anthony E. Varona
Changing Channels And Bridging Divides: The Failure And Redemption Of American Broadcast Television Regulation, Anthony E. Varona
Articles
No abstract provided.
Cyberplace: Defining A Right To Internet Access Through Public Accommodation Law, Colin Crawford
Cyberplace: Defining A Right To Internet Access Through Public Accommodation Law, Colin Crawford
Publications
Following the introduction, Part II makes the case that public accommodation law is an appropriate legal vehicle to establish a right of Internet access. Part III begins with a brief review of the current state of public accommodation law followed by a consideration, in light of that review, of some of the possible limitations of public accommodation principles for regulating the Internet. I will then identify which aspects of the Internet should be classified as places of public accommodation. In this connection, I will examine debates about the nature and scope of public accommodation principles as they apply to persons …