FoldIt and "Citizen Science" By AaronChan 19 Oct 2011 Online Models of Volunteerism Information access does not need to be unidirectional. Instead of traditional ...
Anonymity as Counterbalance for Intrusions of Intellectual Property By AaronChan 05 Dec 2011 Ownership of ideas has little currency in the Information Society ...
Because we only meet once a week, I was hoping to maybe use this as a vehicle for some discussion outside of the actual lecture. Especially in the wake of the recent ...
You create revenue sharing schemes, people will expect to be paid? The is a second draft of my essay that has undergone significant revisions in response to Professor ...
Nothing Left to Hide: The Danger of DNA Databases In an age where companies and governments know more about us than we do ourselves, the last frontier in this loss ...
The Effect of Internet on Legal Scholarship This paper will examine the effect of the internet on legal scholarship; specifically I will examine the apparent decline ...
AdamMcclay 21 Nov 2008 Of the conversations we have had, none had particularly raised a skeptical eyebrow for me until our discussion of non functional zero marginal ...
AdamMcclay 08 Dec 2008 Building from the suggestion in class of thinking about every point in our lives where some electronic record is made of our activities, I decided ...
ON A PRACTICAL LEGAL EDUCATION Progress is often created by a collaboration of independent minds. With technology evolving as it has, human beings are finally able ...
A PUSH FOR CITIZEN SCIENTISTS The Internet has transformed the world of science. Citizen scientists are once again back at it, researching and developing products ...
Introduction "We are accustomed to have people mock what they don't understand" Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet All throughout society there is this public ...
RethinkingtheFutureOfLaw By AlejandroMercado 14 Oct 2011 I. TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The profession of law is being utterly changed by recent concerns regarding ...
Fending Off Goliath By AlejandroMercado 26 Nov 2011 Introduction #8220;The unknown always passes for the marvelous #8221; #8211; Sherlock Holmes, The Red Haired ...
On February 19, 2009 TV stations will end an era by ceasing to broadcast in analog. What this means is that a large chunk of spectrum that the government originally ...
What is the Price of our Privacy? Recently as companies like Phorm and NebuAd have attempted to contract with major ISPs and put their #8220;new wave #8221; of behaviorally ...
It Actually Worked, or How Technology Is Changing Financial Regulation A misleading title. The actual subject might be better described as "one way technology is ...
Commented. No idea what to do next. Making Money When Its All Free By AlexeySokolin 17 Oct 2011 Transitional Stages Matter On the horizon is a world where cultural ...
AlfianKuchit 20 Nov 2008 This paper was a lament against the non functioning elites that have ruled Malaysia since independence as well as the kinds of religious discourses ...
The Ambiguity of Development: A case study of Malaysia #8217;s Multimedia Super Corridor A study of social transformations is a study of the history of power, technology ...
Revised 1st Paper: I wrote a heavily rhetorical version of this already that was rejected by Professor Moglen. I have clarified some of my thoughts here. My argument ...
See revised first paper, resubmitted. AlfonsoJimenez 13 Nov 2008 See my first paper last semester at http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/twiki/bin/view/LawContempSoc ...
Andrei asks, regarding behavior targeting, #8220;Is the individual's autonomy threatened when corporations get very good at selling him things? Or is the harm to ...
Innovation according to Orange or how to maintain a cultural imperialism in France On October, 9th, on the French radio station France Culture, Christine Albanel, ...
The Author is Dead, Long live the Reader Old habits die hard. France always had a hard time getting rid of monarchy and despite what French people love to think ...
How the Internet can Help Solve the Problem of Lack of Mechanisms to Ensure Legitimacy and Accountability of Civil Society Organizations AllanOng The work of civil ...
Examining the Feasibility of Adopting the Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data for Database Products of the United Nations AllanOng In the course of the work ...
In the midst these past few weeks I don't know if any of you had the opportunity to see story regarding Obama's chief speech writer Jon Favreau. I just thought that ...
You Say You Want a Revolution? Eben Moglen, Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, First Monday, August 1999 Eben Moglen, dotCommunist Manifesto (2003 ...
Wow, I created a page! I'm trying to sort out my thoughts on the lecture of October 1, 2009, and I thought that Professor Moglen's comment in the GraspingTheNetTalk ...
Capitalism, Internet Bubble and Beyond Section I Anecdote: Criteria for My First Job When I looked for my first job in 1996, I realized that even top Japanese blue ...
Where Does Newspaper Industry Go? By AndoY 11 Dec 2009 By AndoY Revised 18 Mar 2010 Section I Finding Rules: Commoditization or Disintermediation Professor ...
Factions in a Digital Age By AndreiVoinigescu Table of Contents Introduction In Federalist No. 10, James Madison warned of the threat posed by factions groups ...
Privacy and the Private Sector By AndreiVoinigescu Privacy advocates are in arms about the recent explosion in the monitoring, recording and analysis of people's ...
"Youtube has nothing to fear": DMCA's Fair Use "Safe Harbor" Leaves !McCain Campaign With One Choice: Beg Poor John !McCain. To his morning of November 5 regrets ...
"What I Did Over Summer Vacation" My summer was swell. I interned at EPIC. This was my first chance to adapt law school habits to the workplace. In the fast paced ...
ANARCHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND THE COMMUNICATION OF ARTISTIC VISION What disadvantages, other than inefficiency, does the predominant system of digital popular music ...
Press Releases and Propaganda: Apple as a Case Study What can Apple #8217;s iTunes press releases teach us about the company #8217;s propaganda strategy? Below, I ...
At first you said, after adding the "disclaimer" below, which does nothing to make the essay in any way better, that "substantive reworking was on hold." Now ...
Okay, so I've slept on this for a couple weeks now.. and although I'm now well slept, I'm still clueless as to how I could "fix" this paper. I'm afraid it's terminally ...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH IMPLIED PATENT GRANT UNDER OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COPYRIGHT LICENSES Open Source Versus Proprietary Software Software programs ...
How did we end up here and where are we going? Past The United States Trademark and Patent Office have granted software related patents since the early 1970s. The ...
This is where student specific materials from previous years goes once the term ends. %TREEBROWSER{ theme "file" shared "tree" title "" openTo "1" noroot ...
READY FOR REVIEW PRISON REFORM FOR iOS Introduction Apple's handheld software is largely proprietary rather than #8220;open #8221; and Apple actively blocks ...
REVISED PAPER 1 READY FOR REVIEW PRISON REFORM FOR iOS Introduction Apple's handheld software is largely proprietary rather than #8220;open #8221; and Apple ...
READY FOR REVIEW PROPOSED CHANGES TO FAIR USE INTRODUCTION Pursuant to constitutional mandate, the purpose of copyright law is to #8220;the Progress of ...
The Rage Over Streets of Rage Remake By AustinLeach 25 Oct 2011 (2nd draft is ready) Introduction Copyright Act of 1790 gave exclusive control of works to their ...
Cellular Invasions of Privacy By AustinLeach 01 Jan 2012 (draft is ready) Introduction Cell phone companies use tracking software to locate consumers and monitor ...
Free Medicine Second Draft Ready for Review Prescription drug spending in the U.S. is projected to double by 2020. At the same time, drug development is becoming ...
Intellectual Property and Thought Control Ready for review. The ease of digital production and distribution disrupts the economic case for intellectual property ...
Patent Law at a Crossroads: Bilski and Beyond A Speech given by Eben Moglen at Cardoza Law School on Nov 2, 2009 Thank you it #8217;s a pleasure to be here. I want ...
The Dangers of Data Mining By BradEhrlichman 17 Nov 2009 Introduction Data mining empowers corporations to profile consumers cheaply and effectively. This ...
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
Supporting Artists in a World of Free Distribution of Music By BradleyMullins 17 Nov 2009 As free distribution of music over the internet becomes a practical, ...
Grappling with Grindr By BradleyMullins 12 Dec 2009 With the of social networking to the mobile phone comes new opportunity. Some see social networking as having ...
The Counterculture Movement And Computers: Despite Similarities And Corporate Influence, Historical Materialism Suggests That This Time May Be Different By BrendanMulligan ...
Ready for review. Establishing a Private, Workable Online Medical Database By BrendanMulligan In its 1999 report, Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System ...
I. INTRODUCTION II. EXEMPLARY PRIVACY OPTIONS FOR GOVERNING DATA MINING III. AN OPT IN SYSTEM PROVIDES THE BEST ANALYTICAL PARADIGM IV. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE #8220 ...
Next... By BrettJohnson 24 Dec 2009 Introduction This essay posits that because there is an abundance of readily available alternatives created by the condition ...
Ready for a second review. The DMCA: Seeking a Better Balance By BrianS 16 Nov 2009 I. Corley , Elcom , and 321 Studios The Millennium Copyright Act significantly ...
Ready for a second review. Lessons from the Fireside: Synthesizing the Journey Thus Far By BrianS 02 Dec 2009 Something Private this Way Comes We are now well ...
Charles Colman Paper #1 Professor Moglen writes that "coercive distribution schemes which have traditionally monetized the copyrights of artists are dying off" because ...
CharlesColman 12 Dec 2008 My second paper is a heartfelt (but hopefully not mawkish) little tale about realizing the error of one #8217;s ways. Privacy and Empathy ...
Eben mentioned how computer software has been traditionally protected by copyright, instead of patents. That has me thinking, maybe patent protection is better than ...
Hello? David J. Wallace, in Phone Service Are Mixing Up Net Issues in Europe, New York Times, April 8, 1999 Edmund L. Andrews, Users In Germany Protest High Phone ...
Bazaar Expanding : Encouraging Developer Communities in the Developing World CrystalMao 1 Nov 2011 While the interconnectivity of our digital economy provides ...
No Exit "l'enfer, c'est les autres"...and now they have your data. By CrystalMao 06 Dec 2011 Why Exit Matters The liberal values underlying free society ...
Scott !McCartney, for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint , Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2009 MakalikaNaholowaa 08 Dec 2009
The Death of the Dream Censor By DanaDelger 18 Nov 2009 #8220;Social networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would ...
Naming the Real By DanaDelger 28 Feb 2010 In 1763 William Trent, the British Commander of Fort Pitt, near what is now Pittsburgh, gifted the Delaware Indians ...
Open for comments and edits. DanielHarris 05 Dec 2008 The recording industry sues http://p2pnet.net/story/3773 innocents, the http://www.jenner.com/people ...
Better Living Through Opportunistic Crypto This paper addresses a question similar to that posed by DavidHambrickPaper1, but looks at it from a technical perspective ...
Spotify and the Speed of the Social Network By DanielleThomas 25 Oct 2011 Introduction Digital music is a non functional good whose marginal cost is zero. ...
The Impact of the Internet on Culture By DanielleThomas 28 Nov 2011 The Internet is a powerful tool that provides the world's knowledge at a user's fingertips ...
Why is so much network traffic still unencrypted? Strong encryption has been a legal possibility in many countries for more than a decade and a technical possibility ...
Wikis allow anyone with access to a computer in a community of any size to contribute instantly and collaborate simultaneously with very little effort. This last ...
The Distributed Generation: Technology, Politics, Law I. Conceptual Tools This essay addresses the following question: How can the things we have learned so far in ...
READY FOR REVIEW A Network of Networks: Making Social Change Happen with Bits I. Introduction The "network of pipes and switches" metaphor we have used to understand ...
READY FOR THIRD REVISION A proposal to live in a free mobile telecommunications world By DiegodelaPuente 29 Sep 2011 1. Open your mind By the end of 2010 there ...
READY FOR THIRD REVISION Copyright is no longer needed in the Internet society By DiegodelaPuente 15 Nov 2011 You can compete with zero Copyright is no longer ...
Different countries have enacted different laws for database protection. Among the most prominent ones are the following: 1. United States a database constitutes ...
Surfing the Internet, I stumbled upon this article in which a reporter spoke with Professor Moglen on privacy issues involving Facebook, twitter, etc. Here is a link ...
Talk is Cheap #8230;And Getting Cheaper By DonnaAckermann 05 Nov 2009 Please find a revised version below. Background Over the past decades, after the local ...
DonnaAckermann 06 Dec 2009 Unwitting Victims: The Third Party Privacy Problem Please find a new version of this paper below. How Blogs and Online Pictures Invade ...
TED talk illustrates how Facebook and Google edit the stuff that shows up on your news feed and your searches. The speaker talks about what it means to have the Web ...
The United States: First World Country, Third World Broadband By EdwardBontkowski 12 Nov 2009 A Disturbing Revelation Back when I was in middle school ...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION. The E Reader Privacy Invasion By EdwardBontkowski 31 Dec 2009 The E Reader Explosion Often in class, Professor Moglen threw out interesting ...
Personal Democracy Forum, America, Spring 2008. (Individual essays listed at bottom of linked page) Campaigning Leslie Wayne, Confront Web Role in Politics, New ...
MikeAbend 10 Oct 2011 In one of the first classes, Moglen outlined how the telecom companies made huge and undeserved profits from text services. While this might ...
The Lexis/Westlaw Duopoly and the Proprietization of Legal Research The Political Economy of Legal Research !LexisNexis and Westlaw share control of the U.S. market ...
Duopoly materials http://darp.lse.ac.uk/PapersDB/Dixit (BellJE79).pdf http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/ppwalsh/papers/Vives.pdf Lexis and WestLaw do not ...
The Diminishing Marginal Costs of Social Networking Elliott Ash Introduction Phase 1. When homo sapiens first evolved, humans existed in small hunter gatherer ...
http://psr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/1/57 http://jrichardstevens.com/articles/McKenna onlinerelation.pdf and anonymity in internet social interaction Internet ...
So I thought this was one of the more appropriate forums for bringing up one of the major issues I have had with CLS throughout my first year and a half here: SoftTest ...
It is now easy to detect past behavior of institutions by doing a search of the name of the institution together with the words "fraud" or "scam" and running this ...
Trying to be Decent v. ACLU, No. 96 511, decided June 26, 1997 the Communications Decency Act Archives of the New York Times Loving v. University of Oklahoma Michael ...
Please find below two interesting articles related to data privacy on Facebook and FTC's recent findings: The Economist: Facebook and Privacy (http://www.economist ...
http://mashable.com/2009/11/22/facebook health benefits/ "A Canadian woman claims she has lost her health benefits after her insurance company used her Facebook pictures ...
MY REVISED ESSAY Your revised essay shouldn't be stacked on top of former drafts. It should replace former drafts. The History facility in the wiki does the job ...
FarayiMafoti 17 Dec 2011 COULD ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY GET TOO IMMERSIVE: AN EXCEPTIONAL SCENARIO FOR POSNER Immersiveness is a measure of how seamless the transition ...
Building on our discussion in class today about how the rules about sharing affect the production of information, it seems to me that the focus on incentives is misplaced ...
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create First Paper will create a page named FirstPaper and ...
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Other Since this is an assignment page general editing is restricted. Please leave any comments ...
A Case Study in Privacy: Google Street View By GavinSnyder 15 Nov 2009 Google Street View, a component of Google Maps, provides panoramic camera photos views from ...
Is De Facto Copyright Reform Enough Without Legal Change? By GavinSnyder 31 Dec 2009 The Copyright Act is designed around a pre computer information ecosystem ...
I came across article and thought it was relevant to our class. Apparently Google is going to pay users to track their search history. Users who install a browser ...
One article that might be interesting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/01/governments hacking techniques surveillance NatachaEsteves 07 Nov 2011 ...
I just read the article about "cooking pot" markets, which happened to comment on "altruism" critique (last paragraph), so I will go ahead and provide a block quote ...
E Pluribus Unum Thomas L. Friedman, Mouse That Roars: A Global Tale, New York Times, July 18, 1998 David J. Wallace, Game Achieves Inventor's Vision of Global Play ...
HamiltonFalk 16 Nov 2008 Will Libraries Survive Digital Books? Public libraries serve a number of purposes; a temperate place to spend the day or house community ...
HamiltonFalk 01 Dec 2008 Threats of Obama technology policy to privacy. While the Obama Technology Policy is surely an improvement over the policy of the previous ...
Current mass market communications technology is very insecure. User adoption rates for encryption of emails, instant messages, and phone calls are for all intents ...
Hands Off My Photons My first paper discussed ideas about the future of a truly secure telecommunications network for mass consumption. However, it focused on traditional ...
Facebook Applications and Minor Users: The New Danger of Facebook? By HeatherStevenson 11 Nov 2009 Revised Version The Perceived Problem According to Facebook ...
Practice What You Preach The Case for Sharing Lesson Plans By HeatherStevenson 20 Dec 2009 Revised Version Selling Lesson Plans A lesson plan is like a teacher ...
HoangTruong 20 Dec 2008 Obama's (not so) Secret Weapon: The Internet and Getting Out the Youth Vote Introduction There is a time tested axiom about of who wins political ...
HoangTruong 23 Dec 2008 Introduction !YouTube initially began in February 2005. By February 2008, !YouTube had become an online monopoly for online videos, grabbing ...
The Onion News Network, Opt Out Feature, September 2009. Since this course is about the #8220;end of the world, #8221; I thought a bit of humor (The Onion) would ...
Please do not buy anything from Apple especially an iPhone or related equipment for the month of June 2010. Also please sign the petition in support of workers ...
No facebook friends for judges in Florida No "Friends" For Judges The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee opines on ethical issues relating to judges' use of ...
Here is a 2002 Scientific American article reporting the symptoms of TV addiction. I don't doubt that TV is addictive. What surprised me was Eben's argument that ...
Reclaiming privacy from search engines. By JacobusVanEssen 01 Dec 2009 Search engines sell your privacy Search engines play a big part in the way people use the ...
ready for review. Comments are very welcome. What does a 'free' job look like? By JacobusVanEssen 06 Dec 2009 'The Line' The endnote of professor Moglen in the ...
Ready for review, comments, etc. Selling Your Soul (Part One): Contracts and Property Intro This essay deals with the normative aspects of the trafficking of personal ...
Selling Your Soul (Part 2): The Attention Economy Intro In Part One of Selling Your Soul, I have shown why we should be allowed to sell our future autonomy in contract ...
The network neutrality double speak Lurking beneath the excitement of his Presidential campaign has been frustration at Barack Obama's vague position on issues, including ...
All your face are belong to us: Facebook and the unreasonable expectation of privacy The most obvious protection of privacy in the United States is found in the Fourth ...
JianweiFang 01 Dec 2008 Note: Everyone is welcome to comment on this paper. As English is my second language, I also welcome editing on the language and style. JianweiFang ...
JianweiFang 03 Feb 2009 A Long Tailed Music Industry For quite a long time, I hate the fact that the music industry no longer produces million sale hits that I am ...
JianweiFang 08 Nov 2008 Jianwei Fang's First Paper Note: This paper is not finalized yet and welcome comments from everyone. As English is my second language, I also ...
Anarchy Occupy Wall Street By JohnJeffcott 26 Oct 2011 Why are there footnote numbers here instead of simple link texts, John? The Web's not foreign terrain ...
Free as in Semi Free By JohnJeffcott 16 Jan 2012 Introduction Underlying our discussion of the benefits of anarchist methods of production and distribution for ...
JohnPowerHely 17 Dec 2008 An Affiliate Distribution System for Films or Other High Cost Video Productions I will readily concede that nonfunctional goods are superiorly ...
JohnPowerHely 18 Dec 2008 The Dangers of a National ID System A certain professor at this university encouraged the adoption of nationwide identification cards. ...
Closing Achievement Gaps with the Free Flow of Information: Challenges Posed by America's K 12 Public Education System JonathanBoyer Since the influential 1983 report ...
Autonomy Framed by Infinite Jest: "Children" "Adults" in Pursuit of Happiness Pleasure JonathanBoyer "But see that here it can't be a Fascist matter of screaming ...
JoseFuentes 12 Dec 2008 Free Software v. #8220;Free Software #8221;: How Piracy Impedes the Free Software Revolution A Free Software revolution is upon us. First ...
JoseFuentes 12 Dec 2008 Second Paper The Absence of Privacy and How It Led to the Recession of 2008 Few Americans about their privacy. Well they care, but just ...
Leashing Ourselves By JoshFoster 11 Dec 2009 I: The Closed System It is a well established fact that Apple computers are closed systems; if one has an Apple computer ...
The Cloud By JoshFoster 19 Jan 2010 Cloud 9 Cloud Computing seems like a decent idea on paper. Actually, it seems like many different ideas under one buzzword ...
Anarchic Consumer Protection The geometry of the net allows every person to be connected to and communicate with everyone else. This public discourse, however, has ...
ISP Side Advertising Unlikely NebuAd and companies like it have two purposes: (1) spying on the customers of ISPs, and (2) using that information to add behavioral ...
JulianDunn 12 Jan 2009 Before coughing $5 billion for C Block last January, Verizon promised the FCC that services provided over its newly won new spectrum would meet ...
Cognitive Radio in the Television Bands Julian Dunn Introduction Nearing the end of his tenure, Commissioner Michael Copps reflected in late 2008 that one of the ...
Ice Water, Digital Distribution, and Social Costs JustinColannino "As the self governing community seeks, by the method of voting, to gain wisdom in action, it can ...
John Henry, The Internet, and the New Autonomy JustinColannino John Henry driving on the right side That steam drill driving on the left Says, "Before I'll let your ...
The Value of Autonomy By JuvariaKhan 25 Nov 2009 The Attention Economy We currently live in an attention economy, where entertainment is no longer a commodity ...
Free Software's Role in Developing Countries By JuvariaKhan 10 Dec 2009 Having lived and worked in India, I have closely followed the debates surrounding the country ...
HABEAS DATA: PRESSING FOR A RIGHT TO OBLIVION I lost a friend of mine about a year ago. Hard experience when you are confronted to death for the first time, but that ...
Copyright and droit d'auteur in the digital era By KamelB 31 Dec 2009 Introduction A bill of law has been passed by the French parliament, and I am somewhat afraid ...
Columbia Needs a Digital Rights Clinic #8220;There #8217;s a good clinic at Berkeley now; there #8217;s a good clinic at UCLA; there will be another one somewhere ...
Government Transparency: Simple Answers and Hard Questions With Obama #8217;s impending inauguration, the surrounding flurry of optimism seems to be obscuring some ...
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE A HUMAN BEING LIVING IN A DIFFERENT CULTURE I. Background II. Encountering Two Major Differences III. Experiencing Changes In Thoughts ...
(Final Version) The Internet's Invasion Of Privacy Korea's Case I. Incident That Happened In Korea II. Occuring Question And Analysis Of The Incident III. The ...
Web Site Privacy Policy Statements Introduction Some U.S. web sites have come under fire in recent months for failing to disclose properly what user information ...
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
Political Campaigns and Voter Privacy By LaizaMelena 14 Jan 2012 Online campaigning has been lauded for its potential to democratize politics and mobilize voters ...
Eben, there was one comment that I'm not sure I understood. You said "Our strategy is to drive up their costs by helping people to want to be free." Could ...
Impediments to freedom of expression in China: Filtering Software or Business Interests? By LaurenKlein 09 Dec 2009 Introduction While much concern about censorship ...
EDIT: I've set up a wiki for this study group here. Hi everyone. A group of us met for a few minutes after class today to talk about ways to work together to study ...
Lecture Notes for Sept 4, 2008 Introduction #8226; Moglen will give a program for the future of politics. #8226; For much of human history, human brains were denied ...
Excerpts from the Telecommunications Act of 1996 CRS Summary (Sec. 202) Directs the FCC to modify its multiple ownership rules to eliminate its limitation on ...
Notes on September 18, 2008 Around 1998, firms turn on their axis. Sometimes around June 1998, entertainment and news were products and they were bought, with money ...
Summ up: The network is the name of a social structure. That substantially incresaes the adjecency of people and reduces intermediaries. This is a also a fundamental ...
Notes 10 30 08 If you find anything erroneous or misspelled, please correct it. Thanks, Ted Obama recognizes that he was elected by the net, and his administration ...
Chatroulette: The Microcosm of the Internet By LuciaCaltagirone 31 Jan 2010 Chatroulette, the relatively new website that randomly links users for videochatting ...
Internet Bans: Unfair and Unconstitutional? Current U.S. Position on Internet Bans On April 2, 2010 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck ...
Privacy and Social Networking: The Absence of Regulation Makes Non Profits A Better Option for Users By MakalikaNaholowaa 08 Nov 2009 I #8217;m Worried that ...
Anarchist Development Produces Inherently Superior Software (Eventually?) By MakalikaNaholowaa 11 Jan 2010 Many people have a negative knee jerk reaction to the ...
Making Available in Copyright Law A West Texas district court judge ruled that "making available" through Kazaa counts as distribution. This decision appears to be ...
MarcRoitman 07 Dec 2008 The Effect of the Internet on Free Trade The basic principles of free trade that David Ricardo wrote about two centuries ago remain valid ...
MarcRoitman 19 Dec 2008 Allocation of Inherently Scarce Resources The discipline of economics is devoted to the allocation of scarce resources. Typically, in a capitalist ...
PLEASE COMMENT ON THIS TOPIC!!! I just rather quickly wrote a very first draft of this paper. As I did not want to write a boring overview of this interesting story ...
The #8220;McCain Moment #8221; defeated by the #8220;Obama Revolution #8221;. #8220;It was a peer to peer, bottom up, open source kind of ethos that infused this ...
HADOPI: THE LAW OF MONEY AND LOBBYING HADOPI: What a nice name for an incongruous and liberty killing law! The French Hadopi law was created in 2009 as a way to control ...
SOPA: a job and liberty killing regulation The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of ...
Eben this represents a significant overhaul of the first draft, but I think this version focuses on more pertinent issues. Is the Patent Bargain Appropriate for Pharmaceuticals ...
What I Expect from Networks Before I can look to improve the networks I use every day, it is necessary to have a better idea of my expectations for those networks ...
READY FOR REVIEW Wikipedia: An Exercise in Anarchy? A central theme during the first half of our semester was that for functional goods where MC 0, anarchic production ...
READY FOR REVIEW Introduction Despite its positive consequences, the Internet has facilitated the proliferation of normatively objectionable expression. The paradigmatic ...
Incredibly Late First Draft Ready for Editing etc . The Internet Marketplace and the Real Economy By MeharJagota 14 Jan 2012 The marketplace for real goods ...
Paying Attention to Facebook The social network #8217;s recent IPO has captured the headlines of Wall Street #8217;s media as the company looks to raise $5 billion ...
Please don't stack drafts on top of one another on the page. The wiki preserves every version of every page, as you can find under the History button above. The ...
The use of social networking information in emergency situations and the issue of false or groundless rumor dissemination I. Introduction Following a deadly attack ...
Don't stack revisions on top of one another. It makes comparison harder rather than easier. Just create a new version by editing what's there, including deleting ...
By MiaLee 29 Nov 2011 Online Data Surveillance: Implied Consent, Actualized Vulnerability A Carnegie Mellon study determined that if we performed an annual review ...
CAN CREATION BE INCENTIVIZED? In the first class, professor Moglen posed that intellectual property rights and the underlying legal compensation mechanisms were unnecessary ...
How So Called Multitasking Leads to Reductions in Human Freedom By MichaelDignan 01 Dec 2009 The Information Age has brought with it the Attention Economy With ...
Is the Movie Industry Going to Die Soon? (Like the Recording Industry) With copyright protection eroding, in an era where copies are made freely and infinitely, there ...
"Introduction of new technology is always disruptive to old markets, and particularly to those copyright owners whose works are sold through well established distribution ...
CAN CREATION BE INCENTIVIZED? In the first class, professor Moglen posed that intellectual property rights and the underlying legal compensation mechanisms were unnecessary ...
In class we discussed companies' ability to manipulate our personal electronics without our knowledge. Here are a couple of stories about the Amazon Kindle that demonstrate ...
Please don't stack revisions on top of one another: just edit the page. Prior versions are maintained in the history, and it is easier to see the changes. The ...
READY TO BE READ (modified version of my first paper) Please put this back as a new version on top of the first draft and its edits. The wiki keeps prior versions ...
Revised version. Ready for review. The Right of Oblivion, or How We Love Being Patronized. « Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to ...
So, yesterday the NYPD told people that were peacefully leafletting and picketing outside JG that they were a public safety hazard and that they had to move across ...
One Way to Build an Internet Community By NickFlath 08 Nov 2009 Internet Forums predated the World Wide Web. It was the first messageboard. Many http://www ...
Trademark Law and Free Software By NickFlath 09 Jan 2010 Patent law and copyright law grant exclusivity to the holder. These laws theoretically benefit consumers ...
Ready for 2nd review Arrested Development: musings on the interdependence of State and commercial actors in the development of communication software and hardware ...
Ready for 2nd review NikolaosVolanis 22 Dec 2009 Intellectual property in Open Source Software and Open Standards: Two strategies against open innovation By picking ...
In Thursday #8217;s class, a comment was made regarding privacy issues that went something along the lines of #8216;I #8217;ve got nothing to hide, so I #8217;m not ...
This paper is the outcome of my thoughts about the content of my first draft, the comment on it and the conversation about it. As a result of this process I had to ...
A Marketplace of Ideologies Under the guise of promoting #8220;prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation #8221;, Congress advocates the Online Piracy ...
Why The Internet Chose Barack Obama The Internet Chose President Elect Barack Obama The 2008 Presidential Election in the United States was an historical election ...
The Criminal Prosecution of Lori Drew One of the greatest values that we have derived from the fictional place known as the Internet is its potential for innovation ...
Why Universities May Be Doomed By OmarHaroun 26 Nov 2011 Are Universities Doomed? This essay will discuss my views on why universities may be doomed and why ...
One theme that has emerged throughout this course is how the commodification of information stifles access to knowledge. As somebody with regular access to high speed ...
The term "open source software" refers to any software of which the code is open to use, modification, and redistribution under a variety of licensing structures designed ...
To the extent "platforms" disempower technology users and the major corporate telecom/media/tech entities exert undue control over the public's access rights, it seems ...
The Great Barbecue Eben Moglen, Invisible Barbecue, Columbia Law Review, 1997 Act of 1996, P.L. 104 104, February 8, 1996. The whole bill is plenty of reading. Please ...
Separating Privacy, Secrecy, and Anonymity Secrecy Coming to Terms with Encryption Privacy Guard: Get it if you don't have it, and please read the Privacy Handbook ...
If you are a frequent Google user and have not done so already, try accessing your Dashboard, which provides a limited view of the data that Google collects regarding ...
Concerning the Cavuto comment that Eben mentioned: I'd like to use this thread to track the propaganda that media outlets are stuffing down our throats in light of ...
Over the next few weeks, I'm going to air my questions here. I invite others to join me. 1 Eben says: "Throughout human history, the vast majority of human brains ...
RamiroAlvarezUgarte 18 Sep 2008 Notes on September 18, 2008 Around 1998, firms turn on their axis. Sometimes around June 1998, entertainment and news were products ...
Word Fights. An Approach to the Normative Narratives of the Free Software Movement This paper #8217;s goal is to navigate some seminal documents produced by Richard ...
Part Two. It #8217;s About the Freedom, Stupid. Freedom Stallman rhetoric is full of ideas of freedom. What does that means exactly? He explains it quite well. ...
Reforming !AltLaw As explained in my first essay, a public legal research platform would be a healthy societal development. Columbia's hosted AltLaw search engine ...
This can be a page to post links that parallel our own discussion. http://on.ted.com/2U This TED talk (by a lawyer) discusses incentives, scientific studies surrounding ...
Would anyone be willing to share with me his or her experience editing or creating Wikipedia entries. My first paper argues that Wikipedia's hierarchy and increasingly ...
These are some questions that came to mind after reading "So Much for Savages". If I understand Professor Moglen's main points in "So Much for Savages" correctly, ...
Making Broadcasters Unconstitutional Geller, Turner Broadcasting, the First Amendment, and the New Electronic Delivery Systems, 1 REV. 1 (1995) link ...
Throughout the last couple of weeks we have been discussing in class the interrelation of the law, economics and politics regarding the internet. Unless I stand corrected ...
The following is my adaptation of "Petition of the Candlemakers," the famous satire by Frederic Bastiat. A Petition presented by the Manufacturers of Media, Designers ...
In 10 , James Madison contended that the vastness and heterogeneity of the nascent American nation would limit the tendency of democracies to exercise political power ...
Creating a Network for Development The Hierarchy of Rights While today, there remain few, if any countries that would overtly deny the existence and primacy of human ...
Why do I study patent law? The Foundations of the Patent Regime During the course of my study of patent law in the last semester, I began to question my reasons for ...
News Distribution and Revenue Generation in the Internet Era By SamSalyer 07 Dec 2011 It is no secret that the Internet Era has hit news organizations hard; the ...
READY FOR REVIEW The power of Reddit: Online political engagement in response to SOPA By SamSalyer 12 Jan 2012 Meet the players SOPA The Online Piracy Act ...
PRIVACY AND THE UNNECESSARY EXPANSION OF IP PROTECTION By ScottMcKinney 16 Nov 2009 INTRODUCTION How can we account for the current state of affairs, in which ...
Social Networks and the Internet Society By ScottMcKinney 07 Dec 2009 Introduction Everyday, the internet society becomes more and more interconnected in a complex ...
http://daggle.com/facebooks microsoft moment 1556 A search lover links to a number of posts about Google's personalized search results and Facebook's ridiculous privacy ...
The wireless rollout at American University is especially ambitious, because it integrates cellphone coverage into a single data delivery network that can deliver ...
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Formatting Log In. Clicking here: Create Second Paper will create a page named SecondPaper and ...
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Other Since this is an assignment page general editing is restricted. Please leave any comments ...
Privacy Loopholes in Google Voice, and Why Users Won't Even Notice By SethLindner 06 Nov 2009 Recent Google Acquisitions Two recent acquisitions indicate that ...
READY FOR REVIEW Google Voice SethLindner 11 Feb 2010 To make the presentation more clear, I've decided to do a complete re write of first paper in response to ...
READY FOR REVIEW Note on revisions I have revised this significantly from the first version. To avoid confusion I have removed some of Professor Moglen's previous ...
SharmilaAchari 03 Dec 2008 We live in an era where millions of individuals willingly provide a seemingly infinite amount of private information about themselves on ...
SharmilaAchari 19 Dec 2008 One of the main reasons I enrolled in this class was to discuss the scope of First Amendment protections regarding information disseminated ...
2/16 READY FOR EDITING Lawyers don't use the Web By ShawnFetty 19 Oct 2011 I. Introduction Lawyering has not joined the wide range of activities fundamentally ...
READY FOR EDITING Lessons from Olympus By ShawnFetty 26 Dec 2011 Introduction Despite not knowing the full extent of wrongdoing #8212;the breadth of complicity ...
Please find below an interesting snapshot from the New York Times about the rapidly changing world of computing, communications and technology. New York Times: State ...
READY FOR EDIT Warrantless Searches of Smart Phones By SpencerWan 22 Oct 2011 Technological change has outstripped the current law's ability to protect citizens ...
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
Commodity and The New Public Sphere In Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere , Jurgen Habermas conceived of a sphere in between the private space of the ...
Destructive Creation: Journalism and the Internet The day that I run into a Huffington Post reporter at a Baltimore zoning board hearing is the day that I will ...
What Remedies Remain for those Rebuffed by Reputation Ratings? This inquiry seeks to examine how the law recently has been found an improper vehicle to address the ...
Current Response to Covert Tracking of Consumer Cell and Internet Usage Despite the recent revelation that consumers actions online are under heavy surveillance and ...
StephanieLim updated 20 Nov 2008 The Red Herring The term WhiteSpaces refers to the portions of the radio spectrum left deliberately unused between licensed channels ...
StephanieLim 06 Dec 2008 As governments, markets, and global communities become increasingly networked, free and open source software has emerged as a critical platform ...
Legitimate Price and Coercive Inflation: The Factors that Will Determine the Market Price of Books by Stephen Clarke There is a difference between a monopoly price ...
Use and be Used: Understanding the Role of User Reviews in the Online Marketplace By StephenClarke 05 Jan 2010 Why don't you use standard web linking here ...
Legal Internet Use by Terrorists Introduction One of the greatest features of the internet is that it is a powerful tool available to everyone. However, when such ...
Comment: As I mentioned in the comments below, the heart (and point) of the previous essay WAS the point of view argument, so stripping it of that left it with just ...
Making Money in a Zero Marginal Cost World By StevenWu 13 Nov 2009 I. Introduction It is hard to generate revenues from the sale of zero marginal cost goods ...
SunYoungJang 20 Nov 2008 Proprietary Software v. Free Software Introduction In this Note, I #8217;d like to understand arguments of proprietary software supporters ...
SunYoungJang, 30 Nov 2008 Power of the Net Introduction In this Note, I'd like to briefly discuss the power of the net over news production, authority and economy ...
Food for thought the NYT. It's a powerful point about equity. But, note the implicit assumption of a zero sum game, that investment of "intellectual capital" at top ...
Attached is an article briefing the initial reaction by the Supreme Court on whether the use of GPS for surveillance purposes requires a warrant. I thought most interesting ...
Continuing the Democratization of Knowledge through eBooks By SylviaDuran 24 Oct 2011 Just as the printing press was credited with the of knowledge, the electronic ...
Cyber Bullying Result of Idle Hands? By SylviaDuran 23 Dec 2011 Bullies are old news My elementary school tormentor was named Omar. He was a stocky, angry ...
Quotations Media and Government "Military commentators on most U.S. corporate broadcasting networks are mostly propagandists. On the whole, ex U.S. military personnel ...
just putting a couple ideas on paper.. i'll flesh this out over the coming days for non functional goods with zero marginal costs, property rights are bad as they ...
Virginia Man Gets 20 Years for Anime Child Porn http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2006 03 11/virginia man gets 20 years for anime child porn The Web Prevents ...
This can be a thread where we teach each other self defense. This is how I encrypted my web browsing. Windows: 1) Download Putty from Columbia (or anywhere, it's ...
The future of community gaming Community based gaming made a great advance last month with the release of Media Molecule #8217;s LittleBigPlanet for the !PlayStation ...
E suicide Abraham Biggs died on camera last month. The 19 year old swallowed a large number of prescription drugs, began broadcasting on justin.tv, and started a ...
Summary of Telecommunications Act of 1996 Note: I've tried to summary the class of 9/17 here. Please feel free to add and edit. Major Players Local Phone (RBOCs) ...
Further to our class discussion, attached are three recent articles I consider might be of interest to everyone regarding this privacy debate and its seeming route ...
I hope this thing works as intended. I have not looked through all of the other topics so perhaps this is redundant. My thoughts are a bit confused, so please criticize ...
JohnPowerHely 02 Oct 2008 This is not meant as a full blown essay on my part, but rather as a place for discussion on a topic of some concern to me. I know we have ...
Law and the Siren Triangle How legal safeguards fail to prevent collusion between government, media, and defense contractors By Elliott Ash Abstract The Pentagon ...
Placing Molecular Compounds in the Public Domain By TheodoreSmith 18 Oct 2008 Table of Contents Introduction Chemical compounds are protected under US patent ...
Choice Blindness and Internet Autonomy By TheodoreSmith 01 Jan 2009 The popularization of the internet has changed the relationship between the individual and ...
The Virtual Behavior Laboratory By TheodoreSmith 09 Jan 2009 Table of Contents Introduction Over the last 15 years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has developed into ...
Patentability of Software after Bilski and KSR : Looking Back and Looking Forward By ThomasHou 19 Oct 2011 Section I: Bilski's Indirect and Unfinished Effect ...
Ready for Review. Comments are welcome. Protecting and Promoting the Right to Differ: an Evolutionary Perspective and the Continuing Rightfulness of Barnette ...
About recording keystrokes on mobile phones: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011 12 02/apple questioned by german data regulator over carrier iq.html http://allthingsd ...
Introduction In this paper I examine Eben's argument that anarchism produces inherently superior functional goods when the marginal cost of production of each new ...
Social Production: Here to stay or just a passing fad? The authoring of Wealth of Networks by Benkler has placed questions of social production and the liberal society ...
Houdini: Magic Election Data Introduction The 2008 Presidential election cycle will be remembered as one where technology played a critical role at several junctures ...
PRIVACY AND CLOUD STORAGE By TuviaPeretz 30 Oct 2011 Introduction Use of computing services for data storage has become increasingly popular. Enthusiasts are ...
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
I found Eben's lecture last class on the basics of what comprises the internet helpful, as well as his discussion of why the phrase "network neutrality" doesn't capture ...
ValentinaGurney 21 Dec 2008 Cyber wars in, conventional wars out? Wars evolve hand in hand with technology and every century has introduced new tools to create ...
Feeding the Addiction In 2009 China is expected to be the first country in the world to recognize #8220;internet addiction #8221; as a clinical disorder and register ...
Hi all. I'm sure you, like me, are busy with finals (and soon the holidays). I ran into story today and thought it was interesting. It discusses that insurgents ...
WardBenson 30 Nov 2008 Bifurcations Part I #8211; How capitalism (almost) killed strength training in America: Until a generation ago, most gyms were run for ...
Bifurcations #8211; Part II A key theme of my first paper was the way in which the Net contributed to a bifurcation of the exercising population. Much has been ...
Law in the Internet Society On December 8th, I will preview briefly some issues of ElectronicDemocracy under conditions of massive consumer surveillance that ...
LawNetSoc Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the LawNetSoc web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in . ...
LawNetSoc Web Topic List Topics by Hierarchical Relationship open all close all %TREEBROWSER{ theme "file" shared "tree" title "" openTo "1" noroot ...
When advertising is done poorly, it can be grating. It is intrusive and annoying. When it is done slightly better, it can be even more annoying. People feel violated ...
StephanieLim 14 Nov 2008 entry on White Spaces Gates on White Spaces: 10.22.08 Law Blog on White Spaces issues: 10.25.08 White Space Proposal : 03.24.08
Regarding my second paper, please find below a link to the recent reactions of Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's founder, about Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Link: https: ...
Electronic Monitoring in Domestic Situations: What Does This Mean For Parents in the Fight Against Cyberbullying? Michigan Man Faces 5 Years in Prison for Checking ...
Wildcard Revolution: ICANN 's Unfounded Oppression of ccTLD Innovation The Redirection in the COM and NET Domains dated July 9, 2004 was prepared by the ICANN ...
Discreetly Moving Toward a New Information/Data Protection Regime? In the 21st century, ideas are recognized for their indispensable role as the foundation for innovative ...
William Hughes Paper 1 In today #8217;s technological era, ideas have become an increasingly complicated and valuable concept. Ideas have become a more valuable ...
Technology as a Tool for User Friendly Government? William Hughes As Inauguration Day approaches, many have begun to ponder the tenor President Elect Obama #8217;s ...
Internet Banking Security and Autonomy Issue in Korea By WookJinRha I. Intro Internet and Internet Banking In February 2009, Forbes reported 30 innovations ...
The Arrival and Impact of the iPhone in Korea By WookJinRha The iPhone by Apple Inc. has been a strong emerging force in the world smartphone market for the past ...
Making revisions, draft will be finished soon. But not fast enough. As it is now clear that I was correct in my original comments below, you've got more than a ...
(Second Revision, Ready for Review) Facebook, Google, and the Facade of Privacy By YuShi 16 Nov 2009 It is becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible ...
(Second Revision, Ready for Review) Struggling Against the Decline of Reading By YuShi 17 Dec 2009 "I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most ...
READY TO BE REREAD Return to Sender By ZachMW 07 Nov 2011 Insufficient Postage The United States Postal Service is facing a problem #8211; and so are the American ...
READY TO BE READ The F ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel By ZachMW 28 Dec 2011 Unexcused Absence Last year, on February 24th, I did not make it to my ...