[NCUC-DISCUSS] ICANN's "ambivalent drift into content regulation"

[Mueller, Milton L]

Here is a link to a paper about the "trusted notifier" copyright enforcement program between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and two registry operators for new gTLDs, Seattle-based Donuts and Abu Dhabi-based Radix.

The paper says that "No matter how vehemently ICANN officials insist that they are minding the limits of their mission, the truth of the matter is that ICANN knowingly created a contractual architecture for the new gTLDs that supports a program of private, DNS-based content regulation on behalf of copyright holders and, potentially, other "trusted" parties."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2920805


Dr. Milton L. Mueller
Professor, School of Public Policy
Georgia Institute of Technology


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