Regulating Audiovisual Services

Introduction; Part I Convergence and Regulation: New challenges for European multimedia policy: a German perspective, Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem; Regulatory convergence? Douglas W. Vick. Part II Modes of Regulation: Television and the public interest, C.R. Sunstein; Self regulation and the media, A. Campbell; Controlling the new media: hybrid responses to new forms of power, Andrew Murray and Colin Scott; Shielding children: the European way, Michael D. Birnhack and Jacob Rowbottom. Part III Media Concentration ad Ownership: Rethinking European Union competence in the field of media ownership: the internal market, fundamental rights and European citizenship, R. Crauford Smith; The goal of pluralism and the ownership rules for private broadcasting in Germany: re-regulation or de-regulation? Peter Humphreys; Architectural censorship and the FCC, Christopher S. Yoo; Media structure, ownership policy, and the 1st Amendment, C.E. Baker; Control over technical bottlenecks: a case for media ownership law?, T. Gibbons. Part IV Issues in Regulating New Media: The regulation of interactive television in the United States and European Union, H. Galperin and F. Bar; The 'right to information' and digital broadcasting - about monsters, invisible men and the future of European broadcasting regulation, N. Helberger; Access to content by new media platforms: a review of the competition law problems, Damien Geradin; Television as something special? Content technologies and free-to-air TV, A. Kenyon and R. Wright; Yahoo! Cyber-collision of cultures: who regulates?, Horatia Muir Watt; Spectrum auctions: yesterday's heresy, today's orthodoxy, tomorrow's anachronism, E. Noam; Spectrum flash dance: Eli Noam's proposal for 'open access' to radio waves, T.W. Hazlett; Index.