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Legal (and non-legal) approaches: the regulation of Web media Daith Mac Sthigh PhD Candidate / Research Assistant School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland macsithd@tcd.ie http://www.lexferenda.com Student Presentation

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Legal (and non-legal) approaches: the regulation of ‘Web media’

Daithí Mac Síthigh PhD Candidate / Research Assistant

School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland macsithd@tcd.ie http://www.lexferenda.com

Student Presentation OII/Berkman Summer Doctoral Program(me)

Thursday 26th July 2007

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About my research

  • Media regulation and new

technologies

  • Focus on transition period and

proposals for law reform

  • Location: Law School
  • Media studies, sociology of

technology...

  • Personal influences

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TCD Image Bank

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Why EU and Canada?

  • Freedom of Expression
  • Cyberlaw’s focus on the US
  • Internal tensions (and external inconsistency)
  • Media Law Landmarks

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Legislation

  • Television Without Frontiers

(directive)

  • Telecoms: New Framework

(directive)

  • European Convention of

Human Rights / European Charter of Fundamental Rights

  • Broadcasting Act 1991
  • Canadian Radio-television and

Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

  • Constitution s 2(b), s 1 (& s 27)

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Law Reform

  • Audiovisual Media Services

Directive (proposed)

  • Telecoms (launched)
  • Media Pluralism

(abandoned)

  • New Media Exemption Order
  • Future Environment (report)
  • Mobile Exemption Order
  • “Diversity of Voices”

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Harold Innis toronto school time-binding and space-binding monopolies of knowledge the bias of communication

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marshall mcluhan

National Library of Canada

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Historical Antecedents

Hi! I’m a ‘clash’ between law and technology. You might remember me from such crises as music radio, the video recorder, the printing press ...

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So what (if any) are the law-talkin’ principles here?

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Technological Determinism

  • The influence / prevalence of technological

determinism in the reform process

  • Analyse or criticise?
  • How much detail?
  • How much to explain?
  • Content Analysis or Narrative?

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Four Discourses?

?

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Technological Neutrality

  • No “discrimination” between technologies?
  • Regulate services not technologies?
  • Canada: “section 3 mandate”
  • Net neutrality - danger!
  • “Non-Media-Law” regulation
  • Debate at WSIS

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Communication

  • International Law: New World Information and

Communication Order (NWICO), Right To Communicate (R2C)

  • Marketplace of Ideas?
  • Access to Media? Freedom to Connect?
  • Beyond ‘liberal’ free speech?
  • Cultural Diversity? Language Law?

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Pitfalls

  • New Writing
  • Keeping Current

(From The Margins)

  • Feedback
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Changes in Context

  • “New Stuff”
  • Development of

“Old Stuff”

  • Debate /

Controversy

  • Political Priorities
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In The Bubble

  • What is Cyberlaw?
  • Who are the

Cyberlawyers?

  • How valuable are non-

cyber perspectives?

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http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/02/15/im-in-ur-tube/

The Politics, Perception and Parody of Network Neutrality Legislation

GikII 2 London, September 2007

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Questions / ideas / suggestions?

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