Cyber Rights : Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age

Cyber Rights : Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
by Mike Godwin
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In a provocative analysis of the complex issues of free speech and the right to privacy in the new world of technology, a legal expert examines the implications of the First Amendment in terms of sexual harassment, copyright, libel, and other concerns. 25,000 first printing.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #131548 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-23
• Released on: 1998-06-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.45 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig
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From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind.

Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.

All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten?

Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #214169 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-30
• Released on: 2004-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software

Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software
by Ben Klemens
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This lively and innovative book is about computer code and the legal controls and restrictions on those who write it. The widespread use of personal computers and the Internet have made it possible to release new data or tools instantaneously to virtually the entire world. However, while the digital revolution allows quick and extensive use of these intellectual properties, it also means that their developers face new challenges in retaining their rights as creators. Drawing on a host of examples, Ben Klemens describes and analyzes the intellectual property issues involved in the development of computer software. He focuses on software patents because of their powerful effect on the software market, but he also provides an extensive discussion of how traditional copyright laws can be applied to code. The book concludes with a discussion of recommendations to ease the constraints on software development. This is the first book to confront these problems with serious policy solutions. It is sure to become the standard reference for software developers, those concerned with intellectual property issues, and for policymakers seeking direction. It is critical that public policy on these issues facilitates progress rather than hindering it. There is too much at stake.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #231948 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.07 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 181 pages

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by Lawrence Lessig
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The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress.

Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideas is a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #185536 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x .78" w x 5.20" l, .63 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Law and the Internet: Third Edition

Law and the Internet: Third Edition
by Lilian Edwards, Charlotte Waelde

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This is the third edition of a successful book which offers students and practitioners an up-to-date overview of developments in internet law and practice. The editors have once again assembled a team of expert authors to write about those aspects of internet law which are of special importance in the global regulation of the internet. The book is focused around three principal themes — e-commerce, intellectual property (IP), and privacy, data protection, and cyber-crime with, in addition, a major contribution on internet governance. This edition incorporates, for the first time, areas such as data protection, privacy and electronic surveillance, cyber crime and cyber security, jurisdiction, and dispute resolution online. The section on IP contains clearer and more comprehensive analysis of the ways in which IP and the internet intersect, including coverage of open source licenses and the IP problems around search engines. The third edition also takes account of all current cases and legislation, including the draft revised EC Telecoms Package and the Audio Visual Media Services Directive. Law and the Internet: Third Edition will be essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners interested in internet law and practice, as well as technologists and social scientists.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #938907 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .2 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 713 pages

Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds

Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds
by Greg Lastowka
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Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Free Realms, people are making friends, building communities, creating art, and making real money. Business is booming on the virtual frontier, as billions of dollars are paid in exchange for pixels on screens. But sometimes things go wrong. Virtual criminals defraud online communities in pursuit of real-world profits. People feel cheated when their avatars lose virtual property to wrongdoers. Increasingly, they turn to legal systems for solutions. But when your avatar has been robbed, what law is there to assist you? In "Virtual Justice", Greg Lastowka illustrates the real legal dilemmas posed by virtual worlds. Presenting the most recent lawsuits and controversies, he explains how governments are responding to the chaos on the cyberspace frontier. After an engaging overview of the history and business models of today's virtual worlds, he explores how laws of property, jurisdiction, crime, and copyright are being adapted to pave the path of virtual law. Virtual worlds are becoming more important to society with each passing year. This pioneering study will be an invaluable guide to scholars of online communities for years to come.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #571076 in Books
• Published on: 2011-11-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Who Controls the Internet: Illusions of a Borderless World

Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World
by Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu
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Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net?
In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them.
While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance.
Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #296079 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-17
• Original language: English, German
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 6.22" w x 9.44" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 238 pages

The Tech Contracts Handbook: Software Licenses and Technology Services Agreements for Lawyers and Businesspeople

The Tech Contracts Handbook: Software Licenses and Technology Services Agreements for Lawyers and Businesspeople
by David Tollen
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This is a practical and accessible reference book and training manual on IT contracts. It's a clause-by-clause "how to" guide on software licenses and technology services agreements, covering the issues at stake and offering negotiation tips and sample contract language.

This handbook is for both lawyers and businesspeople, including contract managers, procurement officers, corporate counsel, salespeople, and anyone else responsible for getting IT deals done. Perhaps most important, this book uses simple English, like a good contract.

Topics covered include:

•     Software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing agreements
•     Warranties
•     Indemnities
•     Open source software
•     Service level agreements
•     Nondisclosure agreements
•     Limitations of liability
•     Internet and e-commerce contracts
•     Software escrow
•     Data security
•     Copyright licensing
•     And much more

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #48596 in Books
• Published on: 2011-05-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 6.00" w x 8.90" l, .75 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages