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by the proposed state legislation would be preempted by federal regulation. Section 616 of the Communications Act, giving …
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the regulation of the electronic media in the way it has done for some time. The exact nature of the dispute between the …
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This paper considers what limited roles the FCC may lawfully assume to ensure timely and fair interconnection and compensation agreements in the Internet ecosystem. The paper examines the FCC’s limited role in broadcaster-cable television retransmission consent negotiations with an eye toward...
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In recent years, a growing number of commentators have raised concerns that the decisions made by Internet intermediaries - including last-mile network providers, search engines, social networking sites, and smartphones - are inhibiting free speech and have called for restrictions on their...
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broadcast regulation have hardly changed. Regulators still apply license regimes, ownership limits, behavioral restraints, must … requirements. In contrast, we may expect convergence to aggravate the distorting effects that broadcast regulation has on content … and effect of the FCC's regulations are bound to diminish. Although a weakened FCC regulation will still distort the media …
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In previous papers, Lehr and Sicker (2018a,b) argued that the changing character of our telecommunications infrastructure called for a new regulatory approach, with a new Communications Act to define the duties and authorities of a reconceptualized FCC (what we call newFCC in this paper)....
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consultation on its draft regulation for must carry and must offer (MCMO) conditions in the broadcasting sector. This, together … state of regulation relative to other economies. We take the cases of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the … decision to design and apply MCMO regulation. We conclude with an attempt at deriving best practices in the application and …
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The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television …) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the … services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now …
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telecommunications law. It is argued that the link between telecommunications and media regulation is at the heart of the net neutrality …
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The Federal Communications Commission’s recent Comcast decision has rejected categorical, ex ante restrictions on Internet providers’ ability to manage their networks in favor of a more flexible approach that examines each dispute on a case-by-case basis, as I have long advocated. This book...
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