Net neutrality is believed to prevent Internet fragmentation. We examine the relationship between net neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation in a game-theoretic model that considers the interplay between termination fees, exclusivity and competition between two Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and between two Content Providers (CPs). An exclusivity arrangement between an ISP and a CP...

The network market shows a hierarchy of providers, with backbone providers and access providers. We aim in this paper at describing the economic relationships between those network providers, where content providers are associated to backbone providers while access providers compete to attract end users. We study those interactions thanks to game theory, using a multi-level game model. We analy...

The reuse of existing knowledge is an indispensable part of the creation of novel ideas. In the creative domain knowledge reuse is a common practice known as ‘‘remixing’’. With the emergence of open internet-based platforms in recent years, remixing has found its way from the world of music and art to the design of arbitrary physical goods. However, despite its obvious relevance for the number ...

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...