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

Internet Law Jurisdiction

Internet Law Jurisdiction
by Jonathan L. Zittrain

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This casebook explores Internet Law as a coherent if organic whole — integrating the historical sweep of the global Internet’s development with both the opportunities and problems it has brought about. The book is broad and thorough enough to be the primary or sole text for a variety of Internet-related courses, while deep enough to bring students through the important nuances of such doctrinal topics as copyright, privacy and jurisdiction without assuming any particular prior exposure to these subfields

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1282438 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 115 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

Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power

Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power
by Sandra Braman

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As the informational state replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines the theoretical and practical ramifications of this "change of state." She looks at the ways in which governments are deliberate, explicit, and consistent in their use of information policy to exercise power, exploring not only such familiar topics as intellectual property rights and privacy but also areas in which policy is highly effective but little understood. Such lesser-known issues include hybrid citizenship, the use of "functionally equivalent borders" internally to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Trends in information policy, argues Braman, both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.After laying the theoretical, conceptual, and historical foundations for understanding the informational state, Braman examines 20 information policy principles found in the U.S Constitution. She then explores the effects of U.S. information policy on the identity, structure, borders, and change processes of the state itself and on the individuals, communities, and organizations that make up the state. Looking across the breadth of the legal system, she presents current law as well as trends in and consequences of several information policy issues in each category affected.Change of State introduces information policy on two levels, coupling discussions of specific contemporary problems with more abstract analysis drawing on social theory and empirical research as well as law. Most important, the book provides a way of understanding how information policy brings about the fundamental social changes that come with the transformation to the informational state.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #84256 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.10" h x 5.90" w x 8.90" l, 1.65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 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