Monday April 25, 2005
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Room 180
Free and Open to all!
Lunch Served
The ability of service providers, application developers and hardware firms to innovate and consumers to communicate over the Internet will be determined in two high profile Supreme Court cases in the current term – National Cable Telecommunications Association and Federal Communications Commission v. Brand X and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studies, Inc. V. Grokster. In Open Architecture as Communications Policy, Dr. Cooper shows that policymakers have failed to appreciate how profoundly important open networks and the flow of information have been for dynamic innovation in the digital economy. Dr. Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America, a Fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, the McGanon Communications Research Center, and an Associated Fellow at the Columbia University Institute on Tele-Information.
He combines an active practice as an expert witness and an advocate with academic activities. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People’s Counsels, and citizen interveners before city, state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada. He is the author of
Books – Open Architecture as Communications Policy (Center for Internet and Society, 2004), Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age: Promoting Diversity with First Amendment Principles and Market Structure Analysis (Center for Internet and Society, 2003), Cable Mergers and Monopolies: Market Power in Digital Media and Communications Networks (Economic Policy Institute, 2002), Equity and Energy (Westview, 1983), The Transformation of Egypt (Johns Hopkins, 1982).
Chapters in edited volumes – “Building A Progressive Media And Communications Sector,” forthcoming In News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy, Elliot Cohen, Ed. Prometheus Books; “Hyper-Commercialism In The Media: The Threat To Journalism And Democratic Discourse,” forthcoming In Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy Of News In The United States And Canada, Snyder-Gasher-Compton-Eds. Lexington Books; “Reclaiming The First Amendment: Legal, Factual And Analytic Support For Limits On Media Ownership,” forthcoming in The Future of Media, Robert McChesney, Ed., Seven Stories Press; “The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Economic Reality versus Public Policy,” in B.M. Compaine (Ed.) The Digital Divide Cambridge: MIT, 2001)
Articles in trade and scholarly journals including law review articles on media, telecommunications and digital society issues – “Open Communications Platforms: Cornerstone Of Innovation And Democratic Discourse In The Internet Age, The Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 2003; “Inequality in Digital Society,” Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 2002; “Antitrust as Consumer Protection in the New Economy: Lessons From the Microsoft Case,” Hasting Law Journal, April 2001; and “Open Access to the Broadband Internet,” University of Colorado Law Review, Fall 2000.