Fall term, Block E
M,T 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Professor Yochai Benkler
3 classroom credits LAW-32381A
The course discusses the emergence of the networked information economy
and society, and the ways in which law and policy shape both economic
relations and political values in the digital environment. The course
will discuss the physical layer of the Internet, telecommunications law
and the Federal Communications Commission; the logical layer, free
software, and regulation of technological design; cultural production
and its regulation and challenges; politics and the shape of the
networked public sphere; and other-then-salient questions that will
allow us to explore the core challenges raised by and for the
digitally-networked environment.