Significant Changes since Edition 8.5
Chapter 1: Power
- Updated “independent” agency material and added Note: The Demise of the Independent Agency in Legal Power
- Added brief discussions of broadcast license adjudication (discussed further in Chapter 2: Entry) and FCC v. AT&T (discussed further in Chapter 8: Privacy) in Legal Power
- Added Note: Is Artificial Intelligence a Communications Technology?
Chapter 2: Entry
- Updated N&Q on Interference after Broadcast: Technology
- Added N&Q on Different governments after Miami Herald v. Tornillo
- Shifted N&Q on Losing Your License to significantly expanded Note: Politics and Broadcast Licenses in Merit
- Updated N&Q on Medium scarcity and crowded skies in Money
- Restored, abridged, and updated Note: Ownership Limits after Commons (from earlier edition)
- Moved Internet: Technology and Context materials to Chapter 5: Access; converted and significantly expanded Internet Bandwidth Scarcity to Note: Internet Entry, Scarcity, and Exit
- Restored, abridged, and updated Note: Consolidation (from earlier edition)
Chapter 3: Pricing
- Updated Note: Broadband Deployment and the Connect America Fund after Explicit Subsidies
Chapter 4: Explicit Content
- Reorganized Note: Shifting Indecency Policies after Act III
Chapter 5: Access
- Substantially overhauled introduction
- Minor reorganization of subheadings under Telephony
- Minor updates to N&Q on Reverse transmutation? after Midwest Video II
- New N&Q on Turner II and intermediate scrutiny after Turner I
- Trimmed statutory text and expanded discussion of copyright infringement and Aereo in Note: Rise of Retransmission Consent
- Added brief discussion of YouTube TV religious discrimination obligations to Access to the Multiple System Operator
- Minor updates to Note: Direct Broadcast Satellite
- Migrated Internet: Technology and Context sections from Chapter 2: Entry and The Ideal of a Neutral Internet (with significantly overhauled introduction and discussion of layers) from Chapter 6: Access to Internet
Chapter 6: Classification
- Significantly overhauled introduction to reflect move of The Ideal of a Neutral Internet to Chapter 5: Access
- Significantly overhauled introduction to Broadband Internet as Information Service
- Overhauled and simplified materials in Cable Modem Service as Hybrid Service?
- Revised N&Q on The no-unreasonable-interference/disadvantage rule after Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet
- Added N&Q on Intermediate scrutiny after USTA v. FCC (denying rehearing en banc)
- Updated N&Q on Some light bedtime reading (transparency rules) after Restoring Internet Freedom
Chapter 7: Platforms (retitled from Internet Platforms)
- Overhauled introduction to reflect new chapter title and other additions
- Added discussion of 230/copyright comparison to N&Q on Not only defamation after Blumenthal v. Drudge
- Expanded and converted into full Note: Section 230’s Interaction with Tort and Product Liability Claims after Craigslist and moved N&Q on Carafano v. Metrosplash to introduction of Platform Creation/Development of Illegal Content
- Updated N&Q on What happened? after NTIA 230 Petition.
- Expanded N&Q on Other interests after Moody v. NetChoice with discussion of common carrier cases against Google
- Updated N&Q on The aftermath after TikTok v. Garland.
- Added full-case treatment and N&Q for Anderson v. TikTok
Chapter 8: Privacy
- Added N&Q on Chatrie v. United States after NCTA v. FCC
- Updated Note: Penalizing Cell Phone Providers for Breaches of Mobile Location Data with discussion of FCC v. AT&T
- Expanded N&Q on SEC v. Jarkesy after Note: Penalizing Cell Phone Providers for Breaches of Mobile Location Data
- Added N&Q on Is video streaming accidentally illegal? after Joffe v. Google