Rethinking European Media and Communications Policy

Couverture
Caroline Pauwels
Asp / Vubpress / Upa, 2009 - 370 pages
The fundamental changes caused by convergence also push previously distinct policies together. The objectives of such policies may be quite diverged, however. Conflicts may come to the fore, when economic profitability, legal stability and predictability, basic human rights and socio-cultural values are pitched against one another. The developments render the task of public authorities extremely challenging. How to keep up with the current developments - or even better, how to predict the future scenarios - of the converging information society, so as to provide an optimal societal framework? How to take everyone's interests into account, when the value chains are being completely transformed, when stakeholder groups such as consumers, content producers, network operators, right holders and public authorities interact in the constantly evolving mesh of a true digital environment? Much is at stake: competitiveness and jobs, social inclusion and cultural diversity, market opportunities and fundamental rights.
 

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Foreword
7
Information Telecommunication Technologies
41
Social Computing
75
The New Audiovisual Media Services Directive
99
Rethinking European Broadcasting Regulation
127
Public Broadcasting and State Aid in the New Media Environment
165
State Aid and Public Service Broadcasting
187
State Aid for Film A Policy Moving Too Fast?
219
Why a UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity of Expression?
241
Can Changes in Copyright Legislation Support Convergence
273
The Standard of Proof in EC Merger Control
295
Policy Approaches in the Converging Media
353
List of Contributors
367
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Caroline Pauwels is director of the Center for Studies on Media, Information, and Telecommunications and a research partner of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology. She lectures on national and European communications policy and media economy in the department of communications sciences at the Free University of Brussels. Harri Kalimo is a senior research fellow at the Institute for European Studies. He is a professor at the law and political sciences faculties at the Free University of Brussels, a visiting fellow at Yale University, and an associate professor at the Turku School of Economics. Karen Donders and Ben Van Rompuy are researchers at the Institute for European Studies and are affiliated with the Center for Studies on Media, Information, and Telecommunications at the Free University of Brussels.

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