FCC Finds Comcast’s Network Management Practices Violate FCC Policy
By admin on October 15, 2008 at 4:02 pm
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
By admin on October 15, 2008 at 4:02 pm
By Ryan Calo on September 18, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Worth it just for the graphic. Read more about EFF Sues NSA, Bush, And Others Over Illegal Surveillance
By Larry Downes on August 29, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Last year, I complained about the Cablevision case (see Href=http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Opinions/IP-Law-Versus-Moores-Law/>”IP Law vs Moore’s Law”), a decision I’m pleased to see was recently reversed on appeal. Cablevision was trying to replace set-top DVRs with a centrally-managed system, a common trend in computing these days as hardware and communications improvements make hosted applications (the new term is “cloud” computing) more attractive from a cost, management, and environmental standpoint. The move ran afoul of copyright, however, and the Second Circuit struggled mightily to find a way to make the law fit common sense. Read more about Dog Bites Man - Software Edition
By Lauren Gelman on August 20, 2008 at 3:04 pm
CIS Faculty co-directors Larry Lessig and Barbara van Schewick (with Yale's Jack Balkin) separately sent letters to the FCC to commend the Commissioners on the Comcast ruling released today.
Both praised the order as furthering the FCC's policy that the Internet should function as an open platform for innovation. Read more about CIS Faculty Directors Lessig and van Schewick congratulate FCC on Comcast Ruling