Regulating code

"Internet use has become ubiquitous in the past two decades, but governments, legislators, and their regulatory agencies have struggled to keep up with the rapidly changing Internet technologies and uses. In this groundbreaking collaboration, regulatory lawyer Christopher Marsden and computer scientist Ian Brown analyze the regulatory shaping of 'code' - the technological environment of the Internet - to achieve more economically efficient and socially just regulation. They examine five 'hard cases' that illustrate the regulatory crisis: privacy and data protection; copyright and creativity…