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Regulating Cyberspace The Policies and Technologies of Control
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Richard A. Spinello
Book Code: Q445
ISBN: 1-56720-445-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-445-2
264 pages, figure
Quorum Books
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $103.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2003
Reviews:
  • Spinello closely examines Internet regulation, focusing on five key areas: fair competition and open access, free expression, intellectual property, privacy rights, and security. He takes an in-depth look at the debate in each of these areas, sorting through and clearly articulating the multitude of issues....this book is an excellent, comprehensive resource providing valuable insight. General readers; lower-division undergraduates; professionals.
    —Choice     February 2003
Description: This visionary book presents an interdisciplinary and cogent approach to the issue of Internet governance and control. By examining five critical areas in which the tension between freedom and control is most palpable--fair competition and open access, free expression, intellectual property, privacy rights, and security--Spinello guides the reader on a tour of the emerging body of law and public policy that has attempted to control the anarchy of cyberspace. In so doing, he defends the credo of Internet self-regulation, asserting that the same powerful and flexible architectures that created the Internet as we know it today can be relied upon to aid the private sector in arriving at a workable, decentralized regulatory regime. Except in certain circumstances that require government involvement, self-regulation is not only viable but is a highly preferred alternative to the forced uniformity that centralized structures tend to impose. Beginning with an exploration of the Internet's most important values, including universality, free expression, and open access, as well as its promise as a democratizing force, Spinello considers how we can most effectively preserve those values and fulfill that promise while curtailing the social harms that vex Internet users. How do we arrive at the right mixture of technology and policy so that the Internet does not lose its promise as a liberating technology? In examining this question, Spinello evaluates such architectures of control as filters and rights management protocols, which attempt to keep out unwanted information and protect intellectual property, respectively. He explores how these and other technologies can be designed and used responsibly so that online social order can be sustained with a minimal amount of government intervention.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Global Connectivity and Access
  • Creating and Regulating the Internet
  • Decentralizing Regulation
  • Electronic Commerce and the Network Economy
  • Competition and Antitrust in Cyberspace
  • Freedom of Expression and Content Controls
  • Intellectual Property Wars and Knowledge Monopolies
  • Privacy Rights and the Internet
  • Cybercrimes, Encryption, and Government Surveillance
  • Epilogue
LC Card Number: 2001058931
LCC Class: TK5102
Dewey Class: 303
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