[ecrea] The Broadband Act of 2011: Designing A Communications Act for the 21st Century

>Call for Paper Proposals
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>The Broadband Act of 2011:
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>Designing A Communications Act for the 21st Century
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>A by-invitation experts workshop
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>New America Foundation, Washington, DC
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>September 28-30, 2011
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>The passage of the National Broadband Plan in 
>March 2010; the heated debate over Title II 
>reclassification; the ongoing deliberations 
>regarding the NPRM on Network Neutrality; the 
>Comcast-NBCU merger proceedings; and the April 
>2010 Appeals Court decision in Comcast v. FCC, 
>all point to the need for a comprehensive 
>overhaul of the Communications Act. The last 
>time such a wide-ranging initiative took place 
>was in 1996. That effort led to a blueprint for 
>competition in local telephony markets, 
>universal service reform, and deregulation of 
>media ownership rules, all of which have had an 
>effect on the structure of the media and 
>telecommunications industries today. But it 
>barely addressed the broadband Internet. Now, 15 
>years later, it is clear that a new legal 
>framework is required to confront the challenges 
>created by a national network that is broadband based.
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>The Institute for Information Policy at Penn 
>State and the Open Technology Initiative at the 
>New America Foundation are pleased to announce 
>this Call for Paper Proposals (Abstracts) 
>discussing the rationale, needed amendments and 
>steps to be taken in order to bring the 
>Communications Act of 1934 up to date for the 
>broadband era. The selected papers will be 
>presented and discussed during a three-day 
>by-invitation experts workshop designed to bring 
>together up to a dozen American and 
>international experts and to be held at the New 
>America Foundation in Washington, DC, September 
>28-30, 2010 with the goal of engaging the policy 
>and law making community in a dialogue, and then 
>publishing the papers in an expedited manner.
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>Suggested paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
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>·      New legal theories for the regulation of broadband
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>·      Outlining and/or drafting a new section of the Communication Act
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>·      The need for network neutrality legislation
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>·      Amendments necessary to achieve universal broadband
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>·      The role of the government beyond basic provision of access
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>·      Legal responses to interconnection reform
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>·      Restructuring the Federal Communications Commission
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>·      The role of competition among broadband networks
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>·      A new approach to spectrum management/regulation
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>·      Copyright legislation in the broadband era
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>·      Advancing the goals of the National Broadband Plan
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>·      Any other aspect of the Communications 
>Act that requires attention at this time of technological transition
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>Abstracts of up to 500 words and a short bio of 
>the author(s) should be submitted to 
><mailto:(pennstateiip /at/ psu.edu)>(pennstateiip /at/ psu.edu) 
>  by June 30, 2010. Please write IIPNAFWS: YOUR 
>NAME in the subject line. Accepted presenters 
>will be notified by August 1, 2010.
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>*The final structure of the conference as well 
>as financial support to participants is subject to budget approval.
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>Amit M. Schejter, Ph.D.
>Associate Professor
>Co-director, <http://www.comm.psu.edu/iip>Institute for Information Policy
>The <http://www.comm.psu.edu>College of Communications
>The <http://www.psu.edu>Pennsylvania State University
>Office: 314C Willard
>Mail address: 115 Carnegie Building
>University Park, PA 16802-5101
><http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/m/ams37/>http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/m/ams37/
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