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Prof. Benkler outlined three models of communication - broadcast, telephone, and internet. Historically, broadcast and telephone models featured one-way communication where people passively received information. However, the internet enables two-way communication and user participation, allowing ordinary people worldwide to actively produce and exchange information. While promising for democratic dissemination of ideas, commercialization threatens to limit the internet's potential by regulating it to serve business models. Prof. Benkler argues the law should resist this "enclosure movement" to protect open access to information infrastructure.

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Prof. Benkler outlined three models of communication - broadcast, telephone, and internet. Historically, broadcast and telephone models featured one-way communication where people passively received information. However, the internet enables two-way communication and user participation, allowing ordinary people worldwide to actively produce and exchange information. While promising for democratic dissemination of ideas, commercialization threatens to limit the internet's potential by regulating it to serve business models. Prof. Benkler argues the law should resist this "enclosure movement" to protect open access to information infrastructure.

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONSTRAINTS IN WHICH TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE THE WAY WE PRODUCE AND EXCHANGE INFORMATION Prof. Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School SYNOPSIS

Prof. Benkler outlined his lecture on the political implications of the constraints in which technology and economic organization structure the way we produce and exchange information. He first introduced the Models of Communication in which people are engaged in a very wide realm and dynamics of information and communication these are the broadcast, the telephone, and the internet.

From a very old fashioned information production of newspaper which demands a great amount of capital to reach out the people both local and abroad and an oligarchic structure of broadcasting where the proliferation and dissemination of information is one way and often controlled by the show producers where people had a very limited participation. This

interaction or engagement is often represented by the T.V. ratings which does not provide an adequate feed-backing that will be beneficial for an efficient exchange of information. These models show that people or users of this technology are just mere receivers of information.

But with the growing complexities of modern life and a radical change in the attitude of people brought by modernization as result of technological advancements in the 20 th century Prof. Benkler stressed that the internet represents opportunity for radical reversal of this trend. The internet or the World Wide Web opened the floodgates of immense mass of information everywhere and anywhere in the world. Which made ordinary people from all parts of the world enter into a world arena.

We are now entering a moment in which human beings, rather than capital, can become the organizing factor of our communications system and the information environment. With

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TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW the internet content and logic are done end to end. People are now engaged in a creative, intellectual, and cultural production and exchange of information.

However, the commercialization of technology limits or regulates the production and exchange of information to fit the business model of incumbent content makers. And therefore, in his ending statement, Porf. Benkler stressed that there is a need to resist the enclosure movement and reclaim the public domain of information. The law according to him should step back to let the people be free within an environment that at least produces some or more common infrastructure that the does not require access to a relatively concentrated commercial resources.

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