Network Rules.
Part of a special issue commemorating ten years of cultural environmentalism. The writer examines the current debate between telecommunications providers (telcos) and online companies over broadband access regimes. This debate can be compared to the ongoing differences between intellectual propert...
| Published in: | Law & Contemporary Problems Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 51 - 91 |
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Duke University
Spring2007
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| Summary: | Part of a special issue commemorating ten years of cultural environmentalism. The writer examines the current debate between telecommunications providers (telcos) and online companies over broadband access regimes. This debate can be compared to the ongoing differences between intellectual property “maximalists” and advocates of “free culture.” Just as the increased level of intellectual property protection accorded to content companies can be deemed to have had a negative effect on the public domain, so the greater level of control sought by telcos over the broadband network will probably affect the Internet adversely. Therefore, the same energy and approach that was used to reexamine intellectual property law is now needed in the debate over access to broadband networks. |
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