The markets for audiovisual content are subject to dynamic change. Where once "traditional" (free-to-air, cable, satellite) television was dominating, i.e. linear audiovisual media services, markets display nowadays strong growth of different types of video-on-demand (VoD), i.e. nonlinear...

Die Medien sind ein plastisches Beispiel für technisch-institutionelle Interdependenzen: Im Zuge der von technischen Neuerungen vorangetriebenen Marktdynamik werden tradierte institutionelle Arrangements obsolet, womit neue ordnungspolitische Herausforderungen entstehen. Wenn aber die Medien...

This essay will discuss proposals to impose a tax on broadcast spectrum licenses to funnel money to public media projects or other “public interest” content or objectives.2 Such a tax would be fundamentally unfair to broadcasters, who are struggling for their very survival in the midst of...