Internet communities tend to ignore inappropriate laws and make their own on an ad hoc basis … Users are going to make the policies on the IH … As for the content of both TV and the Internet, the control over pornography and violence will ultimately be in the home. Parents will have to take more responsibility as to what their children view.
Predictor: Branscomb, Anne Wells
Prediction, in context:In a report on a 1995 conference breakout session at the University of Calgary featuring Anne Branscomb, writers Tracy Watson and Jim Wood paraphrase her remarks on legal issues and the Internet: ”The discussion, now led by Anne Branscomb, shifted to law on the IH [Information Highway]. Perpetually unresolved is copyright on the IH. Literally millions of people can download a single document from a single source within minutes. Where there will be a ‘bucks for bytes’ charge remains an issue of considerable debate (and importance). In the meantime, it was pointed out that Internet communities tend to ignore inappropriate laws and make their own on an ad hoc basis. In this regard but in more general context, she noted that users are going to make the policies on the IH … As for the content of both TV and the Internet, the control over pornography and violence will ultimately be in the home. Parents will have to take more responsibility as to what their children view.”
Biography:Anne Wells Branscomb, an expert in technology and the law, was the author of “Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access” (Basic Books, 1994), and the 1995 Yale Law Journal article “Anonymity, Autonomy, and Accountability as Challenges to the First Amendment in Cyberspaces.” (Legislator/Politician/Lawyer.)
Date of prediction: October 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Perspectives on Convergence
Title, headline, chapter name: Legal Issues
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/agt/ostbrans.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Bricker, Erin E.