Schema for institutional ecology

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(draft)


PHYSICAL LAYER (transport)

Broadband treated by FCC as information service

DMCA ISP liability

Municipal broadband barred by states

Open wireless networks

Municipal broadband initiatives


PHYSICAL LAYER (devices)

CBDPTA: regulatory requirements to implement “trusted systems”; private efforts toward the same goal

Operator-controlled mobile phones

Standardization

Fiercely competitive market in commodity componets


LOGICAL LAYER (transmission protocols)

Privatized DNS/ICANN

TCP/IP

IETF

P2P networks


LOGICAL LAYER (software)

DMCA anticircumvention; Proprietary OS; Web browser software patents

Free software

W3C

p2p software widelt used

social acceptability of wide-spread hacking of copy protection


CONTENT LAYER

Copyright expansion

“Right to read”

No De minimis digital sampling

“Fair use” narrowed:

Effect on potential market “commercial” defined broadly

Criminalization

Term extension

Contractual enclosure: UCITA

Trademark dilution

Database protection

Linking and trespass to chattels

International “harmonization” and trade enforcement of maximal exclusive rights regines

Increasing sharing practices and adoption of sharing licensing practices

Creative Commons

Widespread social disdain for copyright

International jurisdictional arbitrage

Early signs of global access to knowledge movement combining developing nations with free information ecology advocates (market and non market)


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