This is the final report of a study undertaken during 2007 into the 'Options for, and effectiveness of, Internet Self- and Co-Regulation'. The study was undertaken at the request of DG Information Society and Media as a contribution to improving the knowledge base for the Impact Assessment (IA)...

The NCSA Mozilla browser was launched on a largely unsuspecting world on 28 September 1993, twenty years before this conference. In those twenty years, the Internet has grown to reach 5 billion of the world’s citizens, and about 75% of citizens in the developed world. Even now, statute and...

This paper examines Bitcoin from a legal and regulatory perspective, answering several important questions. We begin by explaining what Bitcoin is, and why it matters. We describe problems with Bitcoin as a method of implementing a cryptocurrency. This introduction to cryptocurrencies allows us...

In this article we have used existing literature, a large-scale electronic survey of stakeholder participants, an expert workshop and interviews with a range of LAP stakeholders to answer the following research questions: • Where should action on Internet security sit in the continuous...

In this paper, we explain what more is needed to square the circle of Internet regulation in the broader public interest, for all Internet users, not the fortunate few or the even more fortunate and fewer dominant corporations. We argue for ‘prosumer law’ and give an example of our proposed...

Google and Apple’s smartphone and tablet ‘app’ stores are facing significant antitrust scrutiny in Europe, culminating in enforcement action by the European Commission and specific obligations in the new EU Digital Markets Act. In a field previously dominated by US law and jurisprudence,...

The report aims to isolate and examine the socio-institutional barriers to better re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI). It assesses the draft proposal for a Data Mashing Lab (DML) (see: Appendix 2) and is intended for a specialized audience of government policy makers. The findings are...

This paper is a technical regulatory analysis of Next Generation Network (NGN) access for consumers to internet content, to be read by those familiar with regulatory law and economics concepts, and the broad outline of the debate within telecoms regulation. The problem is defined and the...

In this article I argue that monopolists have used the ‘threat’ of an upsetting of the media apple-cart to persuade politicians to grant them extended privileges in their analogue empires, both extending their reach into new markets in which they have (so far unsuccessfully) attempted to...