The global flow of information
Subtitle: legal, social, and cultural perspectives
By: edited by Eddan Katz and Ramesh Subramanian
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780814748114; 9780814748961
Subjects: LAW / Science & Technology; Internet; Information society; Law and globalization; Law and legislation; Information networks
Description: "The Internet has been integral to the globalization of a range of goods and production, from intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse and cultural symbols. Yet the ease with which it allows information to flow at a global level presents enormous regulatory challenges. Understanding if, when, and how the law should regulate online, international flows of information requires a firm grasp of past, present, and future patterns of information flow, and their political, economic, social, and cultural consequences.In The Global Flow of Information, specialists from law, economics, public policy, international studies, and other disciplines probe the issues that lie at the intersection of globalization, law, and technology, and pay particular attention to the wider contextual question of Internet regulation in a globalized world. While individual essays examine everything from the pharmaceutical industry to television to "information warfare" against suspected enemies of the state, all contributors address the fundamental question of whether or not the flow of information across national borders can be controlled, and what role the law should play in regulating global information flows.Ex Machina seriesContributors: Frederick M. Abbott, C. Edwin Baker, Jack M. Balkin, Dan L. Burk, Miguel Angel Centeno, Dorothy E. Denning, James Der Derian, Daniel W. Drezner, Jeremy M. Kaplan, Eddan Katz, Stanley N. Katz, Lawrence Liang, Eli Noam, John G. Palfrey, Jr., Victoria Reyes, and Ramesh Subramanian"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Perspectives on the global flow of information / Ramesh Subramanian and Eddan Katz; title: Mcdonalds, Wienerwald, and the corner deli / Victoria Reyes and Miguel Angel Centeno; title: Internet-TV and the global flow of filmed entertainment / Eli Noam; title: Piracy, creativity and infrastructure : rethinking access to culture / Lawrence Liang; title: Prospects for a global networked cultural heritage : law versus technology? / Stanley N. Katz; title: The cultural exception to trade laws / C. Edwin Baker; title: Weighing the scales : the Internet's effect on state-society relations / Daniel W. Drezner; title: Local nets : filtering and the internet governance problem / John G. Palfrey, Jr.; title: Law as a network standard / Dan L. Burk; title: Emerging market pharmaceutical supply : a prescription for sharing the benefits of global information flow / Frederick M. Abbott; title: The flow of information in modern warfare / Jeremy M. Kaplan; title: Information flow in war and peace / James Der Derian; title: Power over the information flow / Dorothy E. Denning; title: Information power : the information society from an antihumanist perspective / Jack M. Balkin.