In this episode we discuss Lawrence Lessig’s seminal book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). What it meant to us then, what we think it still means and where it ended up being wrong about today.
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— 2 min read — There’s a lot of news right now which means that not everything momentous is making the headlines. The announcement of a new approach to corporate taxation by the Biden administration has not been a lead story but could turn out to have huge ramifications over the next few years. I…
Leave a CommentIn this episode we discuss how the taxation debate unfolded, and what hard choices underpin it. We aim to clarify some of the discussions and look behind the scenes to understand motivations and challenges in creating a clear and predictable internat…
Leave a CommentThis one is about the craft! About how to build policy teams, where they report in and what to do and not do when setting out to think about a policy function!
Participants: Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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In this episode we start looking into the often both complex and complicated issues of jurisdiction over the Internet. We discuss the trends and evolution, and the re-territorialization of the Internet over time and give a few examples of hard choice…
Leave a Comment— < 1 min read — In this week’s episode of the regulate.tech podcast, Nicklas and I tease out what we mean when we talk about ‘Open’ and ‘Closed’ models for the internet. We discuss web vs internet protocols, app stores, ‘walled garden’ services, government imposed restrictions and more!
Leave a CommentIn this episode we examine the often somewhat fuzzy distinction between open and closed systems and platforms, and discuss if there are better ways to think about this. We also suggest that maybe we should pay more attention to the distinction betwee…
Leave a Comment— 10 min read — A hot tech policy topic this year is whether internet services should pay news media companies for the news stories they carry on their platforms. A number of countries have previously passed laws with the intent of moving money from internet services to content publishers, but a new legislative proposal…
2 CommentsThe first copyright episode! We discuss the old copyright wars and the coming ones, as well as the benefits of Creative Commons. What was all the fuss about? And why did copyright fade as the unquestioned number one policy issue in tech policy?
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