竞争与公地:后电信法公共利益,在AOLTW合并之中和之后
Competition and Commons: The Post-Telecom Act Public Interest, in and after the AOLTW Merger
摘要:
1996年的《电信法》将竞争性市场环境作为监管宽容的理由,最终为联邦通信委员会的公共利益标准阐明了一个明确的标准,这是通信领域最多变的概念之一。然而,这种表面上的明确性并没有抑制任期内激烈的政治冲突。本文探讨了公众和监管辩论的美国在线时代华纳合并的方式,竞争和公地政策之间的联系成为相关的通信政策,特别是在大众媒体的一个例子,并讨论了在当前FCC的公共利益的解释。本文认为,电信法的目标是促进信息服务提供商之间的经济竞争,并培养公共关系和行为的民主理想可以连接。竞争政策为不受限制的互动创造了机会,也为培育共有的社会现象提供了必要条件。将竞争和公地概念联系起来,还可以提供有用的方式,解释频谱分配和知识产权等政策领域的公共利益。
英文摘要:
In asserting a competitive market environment as a justification for regulatory forbearance, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 finally articulated a clear standard for the FCC's public interest standard, one of the most protean concepts in communications. This seeming clarity has not, however, inhibited intense political conflict over the term. This paper examines public and regulatory debate over the AOL Time Warner merger as an example of the way in which the linkage between competitions and commons policy becomes relevant to communications policy, particularly in relation to mass media, and discusses interpretations of the public interest in the current FCC. The paper proposes that the Telecom Act's goal of fostering economic competition among information service providers, and the democratic ideal of nurturing public relationships and behaviors can be linked. Competition policy that creates the opportunity for untrammeled interactivity also provides a sine qua non to nurture the social phenomenon of the commons. The linked concepts of competition and commons could also provide useful ways to interpret the public interest in policy arenas as spectrum allocation and intellectual property.
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