Schema for institutional ecology
(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)