As courts and legislatures struggle with how to regulate the Internet, they must consider many factors in deciding how to apply and/or modify existing intellectual property, tort, First Amendment, and contract law. This paper discusses these factors in the context of ‘deep linking,’1 and suggests that there must be a proper balance between initial entitlements and the ability of private parties...

Within U.S. legal and policy circles, the discourse of informationpolicy reform has been organized principally around the themes of access to knowledge and network neutrality. Global discourses of information-policy reform are organized around parallel themes of access and connectivity. Each of those themes has contributed powerful insights to our understanding of the principles that should inf...

R ecent congressional hearings on the heretofore little-known concept of network neutrality prove once again that the devil is in the details. It is gratifying that the United States, which has long drifted without a policy rudder on broadband networking and has fallen behind numerous countries in broadband uptake, is now grappling with how to convert and augment our legacy communications syste...