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2007 Program
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Saturday,
September 29, 2007 |
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8:30 AM - 10:10 AM Sessions |
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Net Neutrality |
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"Net Neutrality," Non-Discrimination and Digital Distribution of Content Through the Internet
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Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, NYU |
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Network Neutrality versus Network Diversity and Broadband Deployment in OECD Countries |
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Francesc Miralles, Department of Information Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, |
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Beyond the ‘net neutrality’ debate: Price and quality discrimination in next generation Internet access |
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Jonathan Cave, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University |
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Christopher Marsden, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University |
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The Never-Was-Neutral Net and Why Informed End Users Can End the Net Neutrality Debates |
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D. Hass |
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Rethinking Software Patents |
After years of relative inattention, the uses and abuses of software patents are attracting increasing attention from policymakers. Spurred in part by a series of critical reports, including ones from the Federal Trade Commission and the National Academy of Sciences, Congress has evaluated a number of patent law reform proposals. Similarly, the Supreme Court is taking a renewed interest in patent law.
For the Internet, telecommunications, and information technology industries, the looming threat of patent infringement lawsuits continues to cause much consternation and criticism. Over the last couple of years, a number of high profile lawsuits—including Alcatel-Microsoft (resulting in a $1.5 billion verdict related to the use of MP3-related technology by Microsoft), the RIM-NTP litigation that threatened to shut down the Blackberry product, and IBM’s suit against Amazon—have raised the question of whether the current patent system is facilitating or hindering innovation.
As to software patents in particular, there are a number of basic questions as to whether the system is out-of-whack. For starters, some question whether patents should even be granted on software, highlighting that software products and Internet standards were created for many years without the incentive of patent protection. Even among those accepting the case for software patents, some question whether the so-called "business method" patents should be allowed.
The challenges of re-thinking software patents are considerable (given reliance interests that are committed to the status quo), but there is notable recognition that the current system is, at a minimum, suboptimal. Proposals for reform range from those calling for fundamental reform to those focusing on the nature of the relief granted (i.e., when injunctive relief should be limited or when infringement should be deemed willful) to those calling for better administration. |
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Phil Weiser,
University of Colorado |
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Mark Lemley,
Stanford University |
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Pam Samuelson,
University of California-Berkeley |
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Jim DeLong,
Of Counsel, Kamlet, Shepherd & Reichert |
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Susan Mann,
Microsoft |
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Emerging Spectrum Management Regimes |
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A Framework for Determining the Optimal Mix of Spectrum Management Regimes |
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Youngsun Kwon, School of IT Business, Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Quello Center, Michigan State University |
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Johannes M. Bauer, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Quello Center, Michigan State University |
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Steven S. Wildman, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media,
Quello Center, Michigan State University |
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Taking up Coase's Challenge 50 years on: Using Spectrum Markets to Deliver Value to Society |
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Becky Stuttard, Ofcom |
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Geoffrey Myers, Ofcom |
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U.S. and Japanese Approaches to SDR and Cognitive Radio: Legal and Cultural Factors Expressed in Certification and Technical Rules |
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James Miller, FCC |
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Bad Neighborhoods of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: A Method for Predicting the Deployment of Unlicensed Devices |
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Christian Sandvig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Security and Safety of Networks |
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Policy-Based Spectrum Access Control and Management for Multi-Band Cognitive Radio Systems for Public Safety Communications |
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P. Tenhula |
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F. Perich |
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M. McHenry |
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Collaborative Networks and the Alaska Land Mobile Radio System: A Framework for Analyzing Inter-Agency People Problems Which Frustrate Public Safety Interoperability |
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J. Brad Bernthal, Colorado Law School; Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado-Boulder |
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Steve Robertson, United States Army; Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado-Boulder |
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Justin Turner, The MITRE Corporation |
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Balancing Network Security Duties against Constraints on Electronic Surveillance Techniques of Network Management |
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John W. Bagby, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University |
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Web 2.0 as an Association Medium |
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M. Ammori |
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New Media Services and Policy |
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Ownership Matters? Content, Localism & Ownership on Local Television News |
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Danilo Yanich, Local Television News Media Project, School of Urban Affairs & Public Policy, Center for Community Research & Service, University of Delaware |
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Why New Media Services are Different |
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Steven S. Wildman, Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, Michigan State University |
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Enforcement and Control of Piracy, Copying and Sharing in the Movie Industry |
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David Waterman, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University |
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Sung Wook Ji, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University |
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Laura Rochet, School of Law, Indiana University |
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Exclusive Quality - Why Exclusive Distribution may Benefit the TV-viewers |
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J. Stennek |
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