IP: Cato Institute conference on Net-regulation, 9/20/96

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Regulation or Private Ordering?  The Future of the Internet


The Cato Institute cordially invites you to a morning conference and luncheon 


Regulation or Private Ordering?
The Future of the Internet


Friday, September 20, 1996
8:30 a.m.   1:30 p.m.


The Cato Institute's F.A. Hayek Auditorium 
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. 
Washington, DC


The Internet promises users unprecedented individual control over
information. It is at once a tool for universal communication, a new form of
media, and a new way of doing business. But it is also a challenge to
lawmakers and regulators. Existing laws cannot easily be applied to the
Internet and appear doomed to failure. Do we need a new set of laws or will
voluntary private action ensure order on the information superhighway?
 
Cato's Regulation or Private Ordering? The Future of the Internet conference
will bring together leading authorities on law, regulation, and technology
to discuss the problems of adapting existing law to the Internet and to
explore private alternatives to regulation. Can private ordering consistent
with individual   
freedom forestall a government backlash against perceived Internet chaos?


The cost of this conference is $25.00.


Registration   Wintergarden 


8:30   8:35   a.m.      Lawrence Gasman   Welcoming Remarks
                                Director, Telecommunications and Technology                             Studies, Cato 
Institute


8:35   9:20   a.m. JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES


David Post;Collective Action in Cyberspace" Georgetown University Law
Center


Dan Burk   Federalism without Borders; Seton Hall University School of Law


9:20   10:30 a.m. FEDERAL REGULATORY ISSUES


Robert Crandall; Rate Regulation and Arbitrage; Internet Telephony;
Brookings Institution
 
Trotter Hardy;Congress and Digital Copyright: Avoiding a Balancing
Act;William & Mary College of Law


Lori Fena;Security of Personal and Corporate Information Online: Moving
toward Industry Self Regulation; Electronic Frontier Foundation


10:30   10:45 a.m. Break


10:45   11:55 a.m. FREE SPEECH IN CYBERSPACE


Danny Weitzner; The Empowered User: Internet Technology Tools for Limiting
Access to Unwanted Material; Protecting Privacy; Center for Democracy and
Technology


Eugene Volokh;Private Online Speech Controls: Censorship, Constitutionally
Protected Editing, or Both? University of California at Los Angeles School
of Law


David Sobel;Prospects of the CDA in the Supreme Court; Electronic Privacy
Information Center


12:30 p.m. Keynote Address - Charles Platt; Net Futures: Scary and Sublime;
Author, Free Zone, The Silicone Man, Contributing Writer, Wired Magazine


12:30 p.m. Luncheon


News media please call Robin Hulsey at (202) 789 5293.
  
To Register, please e-mail Scott Wallis at swallis () cato org, or vist our web
site at //www:cato.org.
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(202) 789-5274
(202) 842-3490 (fax)


Assistant Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies
Cato Institute
1000 Mass. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001