Ross Offers Policy Principles for Media Regulation

ROSS OFFERS POLICY PRINCIPLES FOR MEDIA REGULATION
[SOURCE: Progress and Freedom Foundation]
Policymakers should consider regulation's effect on consumers, innovation and free expression when proposing restrictions and regulations on media platforms, states Patrick Ross in "Do's and Don'ts for Global Media Regulation: Empowering Expression, Consumers and Innovation," a Progress on Point released by The Progress & Freedom Foundation. With debate over the "Television without Frontiers Directive" continuing this fall in the European Union, the author hopes to guide regulators in their policymaking for new media platforms by offering simple principles. "Under these rules," writes Ross, "all new technologies and services could enter the market and compete for customers, and freedom of expression would be ensured." This paper is being published as part of PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom, directed by Senior Fellow Adam Thierer. The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy.
http://www.pff.org/news/news/2006/090606_principmediareg.html