Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age

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Ian Brown (Professor of Information Security and Privacy, University of Oxford) Christopher T. Marsden (University of Sussex)

Regulating Code

Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age

Ian Brown (Professor of Information Security and Privacy, University of Oxford), Christopher T. Marsden (University of Sussex)

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MIT Press
15 August 2023

Central government policies; Legal aspects of computing

Series: Information Revolution and Global Politics

"The case for a smarter ""prosumer law"" approach to Internet regulation that would better protect online innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights.

The case for a smarter ""prosumer law"" approach to Internet regulation that would better protect online innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights.

Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking collaboration, regulatory lawyer Christopher Marsden and computer scientist Ian Brown analyze the regulatory shaping of ""code""-the technological environment of the Internet-to achieve more economically efficient and socially just regulation. They examine five ""hard cases"" that illustrate the regulatory crisis- privacy and data protection; copyright and creativity incentives; censorship; social networks and user-generated content; and net neutrality.

The authors describe the increasing ""multistakeholderization"" of Internet governance, in which user groups argue for representation in the closed business-government dialogue, seeking to bring in both rights-based and technologically expert perspectives. Brown and Marsden draw out lessons for better future regulation from the regulatory and interoperability failures illustrated by the five cases. They conclude that governments, users, and better functioning markets need a smarter ""prosumer law"" approach. Prosumer law would be designed to enhance the competitive production of public goods, including innovation, public safety, and fundamental democratic rights."

By: Ian Brown (Professor of Information Security and Privacy University of Oxford), Christopher T. Marsden (University of Sussex)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780262548847
ISBN 10: 0262548844
Series: Information Revolution and Global Politics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Regulating the Information Giants ix 1 Mapping the Hard Cases 1 2 Code Constraints on Regulation and Competition 21 3 Privacy and Data Protection 47 4 Copyrights 69 5 Censors 93 6 Social Networking Services 117 7 Smart Pipes: Net Neutrality and Innovation 139 8 Comparative Case Study Analysis 163 9 Holistic Regulation of the Interoperable Internet 183 Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms 205 References 211 Index 257

Ian Brown is Professor of Information Security and Privacy at Oxford University's Oxford Internet Institute. He is the editor of the Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet. Christopher T. Marsden is Professor of Law at the University of Sussex school of Law. He is the author of Net Neutrality- Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, Internet Co-Regulation, and three other books.