• No. 25 (2018)

    In the first part of this work, I recover the Cyberspace Declaration of Independence, the emotional text written by John Perry Barlow, one of the lyricists of the legendary rock band Grateful Dead. In that document was expressed the naïve emancipatory spirit that prevailed in cyberspace. In the second part I highlight the importance of the neutrality principle of the network, and I refer to the most relevant associated principles. The end of net neutrality affects most associated principles. In the third part of the text I present the main arguments of the defenders of net neutrality, as well as those who operated to eliminate it. In the fourth part, I refer to the most outstanding events in this debate, which by far transcends the Internet and telecommunications industries in the United States. Its repercussions will be global. In the fifth and last section, I describe how Ajit Pai, president of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), operated to fulfill the task entrusted to him by President Donald Trump: to eliminate the net neutrality.

  • No. 9 (2012)

    In this issue of the journal Derecom, several highly topical works are presented, and one of them, of particular human and academic interest, is the one that collects the friendly and scientific exchange between professors Corredoira (Derecho de la Información) and Nieto (Empresa Informativa), who recently passed away. The draft law on transparency, access to public information and good governance, in the process of being disseminated via the Internet to the whole of society, at this time, reinforces the opportunity of the Annual Reports on Transparency in the Audiovisual Sector, of the Research Group of the Complutense University of Madrid "Transparency, Good Governance and Communication". Each of the chapters of the Report (Fourth) that the Group will present to Spanish society after the holidays has been inserted so that the different subsectors of the audiovisual sector (radio, television, film producers, regional and state regulatory bodies, cable operators) have access to ...

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