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Communications Regulation in the Information Society
Transatlantic Seminar - Scarman House, University of Warwick, June 3-5, 1999
ESRC European Media Regulation Seminar Group in co-operation with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD Science Technology and Industry Directorate
Chief Sponsor: ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Communications regulation is increasingly characterised by the interaction of globalisation, liberalisation and digitisation of information exchange, storage and retrieval. This is evidenced in international policy fora, especially the OECD, ITU, UNCTAD, UNESCO, European Commission and the WTO.
Media regulation is converging in the medium-term with that in telecoms and information technology. Equally, the discrete application of freedom of speech jurisprudence to the mass media is itself converging with competition law and intellectual property law. The rapidity of change and exponential growth of these converging industries has led commentators to variously describe future trends leading to an Information Society, a ‘Weightless Economy’ or a ‘Networked Society’. As a result, in this field ‘law and economics’ is itself converging with international political economy and the interdisciplinary examination of globalisation.
The ESRC European Media Regulation Seminar Group was created to study the UK and European response to the challenges of governance in information economy and society. This series of ESRC seminars has established strong links with regulators and corporate actors, which will continue in the final conference. This final seminar aims to broaden the micro-debates which the earlier single day seminars introduced. Its ambition is to broaden the debate both spatially – with the contribution of esteemed international participants – and in interdisciplinary terms.
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Directorate is pleased to contribute towards the organisation of this initiative, bringing its governmental and industrial network together with the policy communities already engaged with the ESRC Seminar Group.
Academics, corporate policymakers and regulators, from Europe, the United States and East Asia, from law, economics, and other disciplines, are invited to contribute panel themes and abstracts of papers which aim to innovate, to marry disciplines, and to focus on one of the policy questions outlined below.
Participants to include:
Denis Gilhooly – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Telecoms Policy
Dimitri Ypsilanti – Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, OECD
Professor Eli Noam – Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Virtual Information Institute
Professor Martin Cave – Department of Economics, Brunel University
Alain Servantie - Head of Unit, International Aspects of the Information Society, DG13
Professor Leonard Waverman – Toronto and London Business School
Professor Michael Froomkin – Professor of Law, University of Miami
Campbell Cowie – Deputy Head, Commercial Policy, BBC
Professor Larry Lessig – Berkman Chair, Harvard Law School
Professor Richard Higgott - Director, ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Professor Deborah Spar - Harvard Business School
Professor Mark Lemley – Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin
Professor Joel Reidenberg – Fordham Law School, Consultant to DGXV
Professor John Whalley - Co-Director, ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Stefaan Verhulst – Director, Programme on Comparative Media Law and Policy, Oxford
David McGowan – University of Minnesota Law School
For further information, please e-mail chris.marsden@warwick.ac.uk, Tel/fax 44 (0) 1203 523205/524105