The Digital Broadband Migration: The Challenges of Internet Law and Governance

February 12-13, 2012
@ Wittemyer Courtroom, Wolf Law Building, University of Colorado

Video

To view video recordings of the event, click here.

For a report summarizing the conference written by Julie Cuypers, Daniel Henry, Martina Hinojosa, Marissa Johnson, Nereus Lobo, Lauren Ramirez, and Walker Williams Click Here.

In Cooperation With the Federal Communications Bar Association

Internet policy is developing along its path. Internet-based services are not generally overseen by traditional institutions or established legal frameworks. As such, commentators continue to raise a series of concerns related to the future of competition, intellectual property rights, network security, and ongoing technological development. Policymakers continue to evaluate which institutional strategies can frame these discussions and govern behavior in a manner that respects, rather than stifles, dynamism and creativity in the Internet ecosystem.

This Digital Broadband Migration conference will evaluate these emerging discussions, picking up a conversation initiated by the OECD in 2011 on the principles that should guide policymaking in the Internet environment. The discussion will begin with the technology backdrop - IP-based networks are undermining their legacy predecessors, and IP-based broadband networks will soon be carrying all forms of communications, leaving behind an increasingly fragile regulatory regime built on legacy technology and market assumptions. For public policy goals ranging from competition to privacy and security to the protection of intellectual property, these technological and market changes require the development of new governance models and the assumption of new forms of responsibility by Internet actors such as Internet Service Providers, applications providers, and others. The conference will explore many of these questions, evaluate the state of competition policy and intellectual property policy in the Internet environment, and examine what kinds of institutions are best suited to ensuring interoperability, openness, and transparency, while providing appropriate balance and flexibility, in this constantly changing ecosystem.

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