Law And Internet Cultures

Author : Kathy Bowrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521600480

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This book raises the profile of socio-political questions about the global technology and information market. It is a close study of communication flows, networks, nodes, biopolitics and the fragmentations of power. It brings to life the role played by personalities, corporate interactions, industry compromises and the regulatory incompetencies, affecting the technological world we all live in. US technology powers the internet and disseminates American culture on an unprecedented scale. Assessing this power requires an analysis of the diffuse ways that US practice, policy and law dominates, and a consideration of how influence is negotiated and resisted locally. This involves a discussion about how ideas about trade and innovation circulate; of the social power of engineers that establish conventions and protocols; of the reach of Leviathan corporations; and questions about global marketing and consumer tastes. For readers interested in intellectual property law, information technology, cultural studies, globalisation and mass communications.

Author : Lawrence Lessig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780143034650

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Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig Pdf

Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can’t do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.

Author : Mirela Roznovschi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004502338

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Toward a Cyberlegal Culture: Legal Research on the Frontier of Innovation, 2nd Edition by Mirela Roznovschi Pdf

Although universal on-line access to legal information has vastly expanded the lawyer's practical resources, it does not come with a clear and reliable methodology. A fundamental shift in approach is necessary to understand its enormous transformation of the legal research process; using it requires a new set of procedures amounting to the assimilation of a new legal culture. Now for the first time this new 'cyberlegal' culture is fully set forth in a way that makes its great benefits available to all legal practitioners and law librarians. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the new legal infrastructure inherent in the internationalisation of legal research via the internet. It presents dependable strategies for navigating efficiently in the virtual reality environment, with special attention to the librarian's role in shaping legal database interfaces. It thoroughly explains how the law library's mission is restructured, adding a teaching dimension to its traditional role as a reference service.The author describes the skills and managerial decisions that characterise the cyberlegal culture, showing the reader exactly how the cyberlegal information specialist conducts substantive legal research. She spells out the guiding principles on evaluating databases, other online legal research tools, and the 'linked thinking' capabilities of the internet.

Author : Sean A. Pager,Adam Candeub
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857931344

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Transnational Culture in the Internet Age by Sean A. Pager,Adam Candeub Pdf

Digital technology has transformed global culture, connecting and empowering users on a hitherto unknown scale. Existing paradigms from intellectual property rights to cultural diversity and telecommunications regulation seem increasingly obsolete, confounding policymakers and provoking wide-ranging debate. Transnational Culture in the Internet Age draws on a range of disciplines to examine new approaches to regulating communications and cultural production. The insightful contributions shed new light on insufficiently examined issues and highlight connections that cut across the many different domains in which such regulations operate. Building upon the framework presented by David Post – one of the first and most prominent scholars of cyber law and a contributor to this volume – the authors address the implications and economics of the Internet's astronomical scale, jurisdiction and enforcement of the web as it relates to topics including libel tourism and threats to free speech, and the power of global communication to dissolve and recreate identities. Ideal for students and scholars of innovation, technology, cyber law and communication, Transnational Culture in the Internet Age will be a valuable addition to any library.

Author : Jack Goldsmith,Tim Wu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198034806

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Who Controls the Internet? by Jack Goldsmith,Tim Wu Pdf

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.

Author : A. Baumle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230622203

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Sex Discrimination and Law Firm Culture on the Internet by A. Baumle Pdf

Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women lawyers rarely challenge discriminatory behaviour. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, and by exploring lawyers' use of legal discourse in an Internet community, Baumle examines whether the law can in fact serve as a useful tool to challenge inequality.

Author : RichardK. Sherwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351553728

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Popular Culture and Law by RichardK. Sherwin Pdf

What are the consequences when law's stories and images migrate from the courtroom to the court of public opinion and from movie, television and computer screens back to electronic monitors inside the courtroom itself? What happens when lawyers and public relations experts market notorious legal cases and controversial policy issues as if they were just another commodity? What is the appropriate relationship between law and digital culture in virtual worlds on the Internet? In addressing these cutting edge issues, the essays in this volume shed new light on the current status and future fate of law, truth and justice in our time.

Author : Nerissa Naidoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1110183505

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Cancel Culture by Nerissa Naidoo Pdf

Author : Dan Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780415782654

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Amateur Media by Dan Hunter Pdf

The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplinary contextualisation of amateur media before and after Web 2.0. Surveying the institutional, economic and legal construction of the amateur media producer via a series of case studies, it features contributions from experts in the fields of law, economics, media studies and literary studies based in the US and Australia.

Author : Director Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics and Roy L Furman Professorship of Law Lawrence Lessig,Lawrence Lessig
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975664027

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Free Culture by Director Edmond J Safra Center for Ethics and Roy L Furman Professorship of Law Lawrence Lessig,Lawrence Lessig Pdf

Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era", masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can't do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.

Author : Keith Darrell
Publisher : Amber Book Company
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1935971158

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Issues in Internet Law by Keith Darrell Pdf

The 8th edition of Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law has been updated for 2014 with the latest cases and trends in Internet Law. Topics include: Privacy (Invasion of Privacy; Public Records; Workplace Privacy; Employer & ISP Monitoring; Data Collection, Retention, and Breaches; Website Privacy Policies, Behavioral Marketing, Privacy & Children, Metadata); Free Speech (Defamation, SLAPPs, Gripe Sites, Blogs, Obscenity & Pornography, Harassment & Hate Speech, Prior Restraint, Student Speech, Anonymous Speech); Cybercrimes (Spam, Phishing, Identity Theft, Spyware & Malware, Cyberstalking, Cyberbullying, Computer Trespass, Virtual Crime); Intellectual Property (Copyright, Trademark, Patent, Trade Secrets, Creative Commons, File-Sharing, Fair Use, Public Domain, DMCA, Domain Name Disputes, Keyword Advertising); Business & the Internet (Internet Taxation, Interstate Commerce, Web Contracts, e-Discovery, Crowdfunding); Right of Publicity; Accessibility; Net Neutrality; Reputation Management; Social Media Monitoring; Geofiltering; Digital Journalism; Digital Estate Planning; Sexting; Cloud Computing and more. The new edition has an expanded glossary, topic, statute, and case indexes. Concisely written and covering a broad range of topics, this is the most current book of its kind! Reviews: ?Concise overview of Internet-related legal issues.' (Law Library Journal) * ?Although it deals with the complex legal issues surrounding the Internet, it is written in layman's terms and illustrated with 'ripped from the headlines' court cases.' (Amazon) * ?The concepts and issues are presented in a way that is sufficiently rigorous but very easy to read, making the book one I can recommend.' (Computing Reviews) * ?A valuable resource, well-researched and well presented.' * ?I want a copy on my bookshelf always within arm's reach.' * ?The anecdotal nature made it easy to understand the underlying legal concepts.' * ?With India's Internet users increasing, it is imperative that schools adopt this book in a way which would help young students gain knowledge about the various issues involving the Internet.' (Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law) * ?Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law will be a welcome addition in both academic and public law libraries... It should be acquired by libraries for its concise overview of Internet-related legal issues.' (Law Library Journal)

Author : Philippe Breton,David W. Bade
Publisher : Litwin Books Llc
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 193611741X

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The Culture of the Internet and the Internet as Cult by Philippe Breton,David W. Bade Pdf

In this book, French author Philippe Breton looks at the Internet and the culture surrounding it through the lens of its cultural background. Central in his insightful analysis of "the Internet as cult" are Teilhard de Chardin and the New Age, but he looks also at the fears, passions and pathologies of Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener, the imagined worlds of Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, J.G. Ballard and Timothy Leary, the prognostications and confessions of Bill Gates, Nicolas Negroponte and Bill Joy, and the philosophies of Saint-Simon, McLuhan and Pierre Levy. Dreams of a transparent and unmediated world, a world in which neither time nor space are relevant, a world without violence, without law, without a distinction between the public and the private, Breton contrasts with the reality of propaganda, computer viruses and surveillance, the world in which "sociality in the sense of mutuality disappears in favor of interactivity," where "experience with another and with the world in general is replaced by brief reactionary relations that hardly engage us at all." This English language translation is by David Bade."

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 9839054376

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Internet and Society in Latin America and the Caribbean by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

This book presents pioneering research that is designed to show, from a qualitative and ethnographic perspective, how new information and communication technologies, as applied to the school system and to local governance initiatives, merely reproduce traditional pedagogical approaches and the dominant forms by which power is exercised at the local level. The studies thus constitute points of departure for further thinking about the need to promote an Internet culture based on the social application of a "right to communication and culture" and an "Internet right," that will permit the establi.

Author : Tarleton Gillespie
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780262250832

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Wired Shut by Tarleton Gillespie Pdf

How the shift toward "technical copy protection" in the battle over digital copyright depends on changing political and commercial alignments that are profoundly shaping the future of cultural expression in a digital age. While the public and the media have been distracted by the story of Napster, warnings about the evils of "piracy," and lawsuits by the recording and film industries, the enforcement of copyright law in the digital world has quietly shifted from regulating copying to regulating the design of technology. Lawmakers and commercial interests are pursuing what might be called a technical fix: instead of specifying what can and cannot be done legally with a copyrighted work, this new approach calls for the strategic use of encryption technologies to build standards of copyright directly into digital devices so that some uses are possible and others rendered impossible. In Wired Shut, Tarleton Gillespie examines this shift to "technical copy protection" and its profound political, economic, and cultural implications. Gillespie reveals that the real story is not the technological controls themselves but the political, economic, and cultural arrangements being put in place to make them work. He shows that this approach to digital copyright depends on new kinds of alliances among content and technology industries, legislators, regulators, and the courts, and is changing the relationship between law and technology in the process. The film and music industries, he claims, are deploying copyright in order to funnel digital culture into increasingly commercial patterns that threaten to undermine the democratic potential of a network society. In this broad context, Gillespie examines three recent controversies over digital copyright: the failed effort to develop copy protection for portable music players with the Strategic Digital Music Initiative (SDMI); the encryption system used in DVDs, and the film industry's legal response to the tools that challenged them; and the attempt by the FCC to mandate the "broadcast flag" copy protection system for digital television. In each, he argues that whether or not such technical constraints ever succeed, the political alignments required will profoundly shape the future of cultural expression in a digital age.

Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789280520163

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Intellectual Property and the Safeguarding of Traditional Cultures: Legal Issues and Practical Options for Museums, Libraries and Archives by World Intellectual Property Organization Pdf

This publication, prepared under the aegis of the WIPO Creative Heritage Project by two external consultants, Ms. Molly Torsen and Dr. Jane Anderson, offers legal information and compiles practical experiences on the management of intellectual property for cultural institutions whose collections comprise traditional cultural expressions. It seeks to respond directly to the needs of cultural institutions and indigenous and traditional communities dealing with the preservation, safeguarding and protection of cultural heritage.