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Regulatory Trends in Webcasting in the United States, the European Union, and Japan: Focusing on Universal Service

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Multimedia Internet Broadcasting

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There is no specific policy targeting on webcasting, sometimes known as Internet broadcasting, in the world. In fact, policy-makers are increasingly facing challenges of how to deal with new communication services that use the Internet to deliver contents to users in ways that take on many of the characteristics of traditional communications services. Webcasting is a leading example of the emerging group of new services. It is not an easy task for policy-makers to promptly respond to fast-growing Internet-based services like webcasting.

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Kim, JY. (2001). Regulatory Trends in Webcasting in the United States, the European Union, and Japan: Focusing on Universal Service. In: Sloane, A., Lawrence, D. (eds) Multimedia Internet Broadcasting. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0327-1_8

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