CIAO DATE: 05/04

International Journal of Communications Law and Policy

 

Issue 1, Summer 1998

 

Articles

• Converging Communications, Diverging Regulators? - Germany's Constitutional Duplication in Internet Governance - by Christian Koenig & Ernst Röder

• Public Television in America Project - Public Television and New Technologies - by Monroe E. Price

• European Policies and Regulations on Media Concentration by Jens Cavallin

 

Work in Progress

• A 'Third Way' for the creative industries? Hybrid cultures: the role of bytes and atoms in locating the new cultural economy and society by Andy C. Pratt

• Media transparency in Romania - Present problems and possible solutions - by Virgil Stefan Nitulesc

• Convergence, Competition and Regulation by Campbell Cowie & Christopher T. Marsden

 

Conference Reviews

• European Audiovisual Conference at Birmingham (UK), April 6 to 8, 1998 by Bernd Holznagel

• International Telecommunications Society Twelth Biennial Conference at Stockholm (Sweden), June 21 to 24, 1998 by Christopher T. Marsden

 

Conference Abstracts

• Conference on Convergence in European Digital TV Regulation at Warwick (UK), April 20, 1998 by Christopher T. Marsden

• Workshop "Internet Telephony" at Marburg (Germany), June 5 to 6, 1998 by Christian Koenig

 

Case Note

• Bavaria v. Felix Somm: The Pornography Conviction of the Former CompuServe Manager by Gunnar Bender

 

Opinion

• Universal Service in the United States: unjust, unreasonable, and unaffordable? Telecom Act of 96 Update: The Institution of the "E-Rate" Subsidy for Schools and Libraries Prompts a Political Debate Over the Future of Universal Service in Telecommunications in the United States by Beth Simone Noveck

 

New Projects

• The Information Society Project at Yale Law School

• New Media in University Teaching at the University of MÜnster and the Open University Hagen

• Research Center for the European and German Law of Telecommunications at the Philipps University of Marburg

 

Conference Announcements

• The Profession of Journalism in a Democratic Society Napier University at Edinburgh, September 4 to 5, 1998

• JuraForum MÜnster: Medien und Recht - Juristische Fragen der Kommunikationsgesellschaft Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität MÜnster, 17. November 1998

• Sports Rights and Broadcast Listed Events University of Warwick, December 11, 1998