Regulating Audiovisual Services

ISBN-13: 9781138378506 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 622 str.

THOMAS GIBBONS

Opis

The adoption of digital technology has resulted in the convergence of broadcasting, cable, satellite, the Internet and mobile telephony, enabling each of them to deliver the same kinds of content and allowing users to exercise much greater choice over the kind of material that they receive and when they receive it. The essays in this volume examine issues that have arisen from the changing nature of audiovisual services and their impact on regulatory policy and practice.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part I Convergence and Regulation: New challenges for European multimedia policy: a German perspective, Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem; Regulatory convergence? Douglas W. Vick. Part II Techniques of Regulation: Television and the public interest, Cass R. Sunstein; Self regulation and the media, Angela J. Campbell; Controlling the new media: hybrid responses to new forms of power, Andrew Murray and Colin Scott; Shielding children: the European way, Michael D. Birnhack and Jacob H. Rowbottom. Part III Structural Regulation: Media Concentration and Ownership: Rethinking European Union competence in the field of media ownership: the internal market, fundamental rights and European citizenship, Rachael Craufurd Smith; The goal of pluralism and the ownership rules for private broadcasting in Germany: re-regulation or de-regulation? Peter Humphreys; Architectural censorship and the FCC, Christopher S. Yoo; Media structure, ownership policy, and the 1st Amendment, C. Edwin Baker; Control over technical bottlenecks - a case for media ownership law?, Thomas Gibbons. Part IV Issues in Regulating New Media: The regulation of interactive television in the United States and the European Union, Hernan Galperin and François Bar; The 'right to information' and digital broadcasting: about monsters, invisible men and the future of European broadcasting regulation, Natali Helberger; Access to content by new media platforms: a review of the competition law problems, Damien Geradin; Television as something special? Content control technologies and free-to-air TV, Andrew T. Kenyon and Robin Wright; Yahoo! Cyber-collision of cultures: who regulates?, Horatia Muir Watt; Spectrum auctions: yesterday's heresy, today's orthodoxy, tomorrow's anachronism: taking the next step to open spectrum access, Eli Noam; Spectrum flash dance: Eli Noam's proposal for 'open access' to radio waves, Thomas W. Hazlett; Name Index.

O autorze

Thomas Gibbons is a Professor in the Department of Law at University of Manchester, UK