Winning Slowly

The EU and internet law—monopolies, copyright, taxing, freedom of speech, and learning from each other. Show Notes In this second of two episodes recorded live at NC State (with a different class of students), we tackle the European Union’s approach to internet legislation—including everything from copyright law to dealing with monopolies—as a way to look at how differently things work around the world. What might we learn from other countries here in the U.S.? What might they learn from us? Links Internet history ARPANET (Wikipedia) MILNET (Wikipedia) (actually a subsection of ARPANET used specifically for military purposes) World Wide Web & Tim Berners Lee (Pew) Minitel (Wikipedia) “Minitel, France’s precursor to the Web, to go dark on June 30 [2012]” (Ars Technica) Monopsony (Economics Online) Applied to the tech industry: “Publishers’ Deal with the Devil” (Stratechery) United States v. Microsoft Corp. “Justice Department Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft for Unlawfully Monopolizing Comput