About the Book

Regulated Digital Industries: The Law and Policy of Communications Networks and Platforms offers a cohesive and comprehensive introduction to the legal frameworks governing our modern communications infrastructure—from telephony and broadcasting to the Internet, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Designed for upper-level courses in Internet law, telecommunications law, media and communications law, and technology policy, this new book covers key legal and technological developments in telecommunications over the last century.

Rather than treat issues like interconnection, network neutrality, and Section 230 in isolation, Regulated Digital Industries situates them within a unified framework that moves both up the technological stack—from infrastructure to content—and forward in time, showing how today’s disputes emerge from earlier regulatory choices. This structure helps students see how early frameworks for telephony, broadcasting, and cable continue to shape modern debates over broadband Internet access, platform governance, and AI regulation.

Blending carefully edited cases, regulatory materials, and scholarly works with information boxes, notes, and discussion questions, the book offers both doctrinal depth and analytic clarity on such core underlying issues as economies of scale, network effects, vertical leveraging, and institutional competence. The book has been developed in the classroom for over a decade, and so is designed to be accessible for students and teachable for instructors. In all, Regulated Digital Industries gives students the tools to identify recurring policy problems, to evaluate how legal institutions respond to changes over time and in technology, and to understand—and shape—the next generation of communications policy.

University Casebook Series · Foundation Press · 1st ed. 2026 · ISBN 9798317702816