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Regulating Code: Good Governance And Better Regulation In The Information Age (Information Revolution And Global Politics)

Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking collaboration, regulatory lawyer Christopher Marsden and computer scientist Ian Brown analyze the regulatory shaping of "code" -- the technological environment of the Internet -- to achieve more economically efficient and socially just regulation. They examine five "hard cases" that illustrate the regulatory crisis: privacy and data protection; copyright and creativity incentives; censorship; social networks and user-generated content; and net neutrality. The authors describe the increasing "multistakeholderization" of Internet governance, in which user groups argue for representation in the closed business-government dialogue, seeking to bring in both rights-based and technologically expert perspectives. Brown and Marsden draw out lessons for better future regulation from the regulatory and interoperability failures illustrated by the five cases. They conclude that governments, users, and better functioning markets need a smarter "prosumer law" approach. Prosumer law would be designed to enhance the competitive production of public goods, including innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights.

Series: Information Revolution and Global Politics

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: The MIT Press (March 1, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0262018829

ISBN-13: 978-0262018821

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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Best Sellers Rank: #412,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #34 in Books > Computers & Technology > History & Culture > Computer & Internet Law #49 in Books > Law > Legal Theory & Systems > Science & Technology #86 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Public Affairs & Policy > Cultural Policy

Heavy and dense, this ought not be one's first reading on telecom regulation. That said, it's an exceptional follow-up to Lawrence Lessig's classic text on the subject, Code. Brown explores, in detail, the basic areas which Lessig does, but with greater specificity and on a (now) more contemporary basis.

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