- challenging property claims in new media
- public interest in nurturing a transparent, easily accessibble, affordable, and freely interactive communication network

PUBLIC INTEREST
- capture theory: regulatory agencies become tool sof the ompanies they regulate
- public choice theory
- deregulation
- natural marketplace

BROADBAN INTERNET POLICY
- telecom act in 1996 - link law, public interest, business, economy efficiency, and promo of innovation
- ignored emerging digital networking practices = distributed networking
- owning the customer by channeling choices
- walled garden?
- BB providers have created the capacity to privilege one provider's access to a user over another by controlling the frame around the image, speed, amount and kind of data a user sends

OPEN ACCESS AND THE COMMONS
- ISP growth as threat to business - b/c it's not assured access to customers
- academia - finding new (property regime) models?
- "code is law" - Lessig
- commons - a set of social practices that permit shared, open communication for a variety of purposes
- commercial and gift economy of networks
- Benkler - 3 layers: physical infrastructure, logical infrastructure and content layers
- ancien regime as producer - consumer relationship rather than open platform model afforded by the potential user as producer mode
- commons describes a strategies at all 3 layers - resources and exchange available to individuals

- wait and see policy
- Internet's inherent beauty is in its transformative power; its consumers can be producers and speakers as well
- "in newly developing technologies, system architecture dictates policy"