Monroe Edwin Price

Includes text of an essay Price co-authored with Melville B. Nimmer entitled: Moral rights and beyond : considerations for the College Art Association.

The essays in this book provide a broad look at the many ways that information technology relates to issues of governance and public policy. Adjusting regulatory institutions to the new technical realities is a great challenge. Will monopoly power threaten the traditionally regulated areas of telephones and cable television or the software systems that integrate all information technologies into a single system with many competing players? Can traditional approaches to intellectual property rights and control of socially harmful content be applied to the converged information sector? This book sheds light on these issues, and in so doing demonstrates the usefulness of rigorous, multidisciplinary policy analysis in assessing the significance of changing technology.

"Broadcast professionals, students and teachers in communications and related fields, government officials interested in strengthening public service broadcasting and keeping pace with rapid developments - all will benefit enormously from this thoughtful and informative book. It will allow them to think well beyond the standard formulae about the function of public service broadcasting and its role in society."--BOOK JACKET.

"This volume considers the role of parents in controlling television programs watched by children. Originating out of a study performed for the European Commission by the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), this report examines parental monitoring and control of access to broadcast programming. Conducted in countries across Europe, the study crossed media, national boundaries, and technologies to consider possible directions for public policy.". "As a comprehensive snapshot of the technologies and systems available to monitor and control children's television use in the European community, this report serves both as a benchmark of the current level of control and as a foundation from which to consider future media policy and regulation considerations. It will be of great interest to scholars and students in comparative media studies, media policy, and regulation, as well as to policymakers, regulators, and others interested in the rating and control of media content."--BOOK JACKET.

In The V-Chip Debate, Monroe E. Price has gathered an international set of contributors from government, academe, and industry to discuss the origins and development of the V-chip and its certain destiny to alter not just programming and broadcasting policies but law and public policy as well. The essays in this timely volume contrast the approaches in Canada and the United States in terms of the role of regulatory agency, industry, and government, as well as discuss existing television rating systems throughout the world. While the concept of the V-chip is simple, its implications are varied and complex. For all involved in media policy and law, this volume provides a unique perspective on the V-chip debate, and brings to the forefront a critical topic certain to have monumental impact on public policy for years to come.