The market for communication satellites has matured. The original environment within which international satellite organisations were formed or for which they were formed no longer exists. Privatisation, liberalisation, deregulation and competition are now keywords in the telecommunications industry...   MORE>>

INTRODUCTION

THE conversion of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (INTELSAT) from an intergovernmental organisation into a private company is well advanced, and will most likely be completed in 2001. In the light of the original hope for the development of a global space ...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

PROF Francis Lyall in his recently published article 'On the Privatisation of INTELSAT' has addressed (a) the issue of privatisation of space entities like INTELSAT and its impact on the developing countries, and (b) the concepts of public service and global public interest and ho...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION VIA RETROSPECT

THE best way of approaching the above subject today is to glance very briefly backward at the history of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) whose mandate, work and activities started more than 135 years ago, ie, on 17 May 1865 in Paris. As the eldest of...   MORE>>

“Early in life I had noticed that no event was ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”—George Orwell

I. INTRODUCTION

To litigators, the title of this article should be cause for great concern. No matter the media pathway by which information is disseminated, whether through the newspape...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

Every law office recognizes that the speed, economy and space-saving benefits of email have made it an indispensable tool. Email arguably is the most efficient means of communication yet devised. However, the adoption of email as a principal means of communication presents a varie...   MORE>>

It is a privilege for me to give the first Masterman Institute lecture. Edward Masterman has been an inspiring leader of the bar. He and his wife, Sydell, funded the institute to explore the freedom of the press and its limits. I think that is a wise combination of subjects. The press often sounds a...   MORE>>

Copyright is a system of federal regulation that empowers private actors to silence others, yet no one seriously doubts that copyright is consistent in principle with the First Amendment freedom of speech. Scholars and courts have tried to resolve the tension between exclusive rights in expression a...   MORE>>

I. INTRODUCTION

Whatever lip service we may pay to those spaces “immemorially . . . held in trust for the use of the public,” the Internet is operatively the most important public forum ever created. Its vast interconnectivity far more nearly approximates the prototypical “marketplace of id...   MORE>>

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

1 Introduction

The recent publication of the proposed amendments to the Films and Publications Act has drawn sharp reaction from various media organisations. Associ...   MORE>>