IP6

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IP6
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Allocation of Spectrum

• Spectrum as property sold on the market
• Spectrum as commons E2E

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Property Regime

• If the market is perfect, great competition
  results
• Strategic action by a dominant resource owner is
  not possible
• Innovation results from competition
• Costs securing rights to access, costs of
  sharing access
• Auctions with high sale prices serve as barriers
  to entry and encourage oligopoly

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Commons Regime

• Competition is encouraged
• Innovation results from competition
• The risk is from overuse of the commons result
  is congestion

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Alternative Regime

• Allocate some parts of spectrum as property and
  some as commons.
• Encourages diverse usage
• There are different parts of the usable spectrum
  each should have some portion as property and
  some as commons
• Use intelligent devices to handle contention

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Analogies and Metaphors

• What are the correct metaphors for spectrum?
• Property
• The highway system
• The National Park system

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Bottom Line

• Our cultural notion of democracy is to limit the
  size of government and private entities
• Where is the correct balance between
  property/control and commons?
• Why is there such a trend toward strong
  property/control regimes?

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DMCA

• Key provisions of the DMCA
• Anti circumvention measures
• Suppression of the first use doctrine
• Free speech implications
• Unintended consequences of the DMCA