Producing Content, Distributing Content = Different Forms of Regulation

08Jul09

French competition regulator released an important report, saying an internet provider should (Orange in this case) not be allowed to use exclusive broadcasting rights to make some media content available only to its suscribers.
France is thus drifting away from poor regulation that would have been detrimental to both the role that the media play in [...]

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Tags: Cultural industries, Orange, Telecom, TV

Internet Is a Fundamental Right, French Constitutional Court Says

11Jun09

Yesterday at 5P.M, the French Constitutional Council – in charge of checking the conformity of legislation with the Constitution – rendered a groundbreaking decision regarding the highly controversial “three strikes law” (or graduated response), passed last month by Parliament to fight illegal downloading.

The law established a penalty amounting to the suspension of downloaders’ internet connection [...]

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Tags: Constitution, Copyright, Cultural industries, Europe, France, Human Rights, Internet, Media, Network, New Media

Could the Internet End Up Killing the Public Sphere?

03Mar09

A few weeks ago, the French Journal Le Débat published a compelling piece by Benjamin Loveluck entitled “Internet: Toward a Radical Democracy?“. The author, who is writing a Ph.D thesis on “the hypermodern individual and the genealogy of contemporary media regimes” (sic), successfully locates the recent developments of the internet within the history of liberal-democracies. [...]

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Tags: Blogging, Copyright, Cultural industries, Democracy, Google, Intellectual Property, Internet, Journalism, Lessig, New Media, Philosophy