Interview with Marvin Ammori and Christof Weinhardt on “Network Neutrality and the Future of Telecommunication”

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Marvin Ammori is a lawyer expert in issues involving technology, speech and innovation. He worked on network neutrality before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission for many years as the head lawyer for Washington, DC’s leading digital rights organization, Free Press. In that capacity, he served as the lead lawyer on the seminal Comcast-BitTorrent case. He subsequently became a law professor, writing and teaching in global and U.S. Internet law. He is a Legal Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC and an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet & Society in California. Christof Weinhardt is head of the Institute of Information Management and Systems at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where he also serves as a full professor. He is speaker of the competence field “Interaction of Science with Technology” and Vice Dean of Research at the School of Economics and Engineering. Further, he is director of the Research Center of Information Technology (FZI) as well as founder and director of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) of the KIT. Since 2008 he has been member of the expert group “Business Economics” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and member of the committee of enquiry of the German Parliament (Bundestag) on “Internet and Digital Society”. His research focuses on problems and solutions of information economics and market engineering with applications in the areas of finance, energy, and telecommunications of electronic markets. …