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My Library: Copyright And The Role Of Institutions In A Peer-To-Peer World, Rebecca Tushnet
My Library: Copyright And The Role Of Institutions In A Peer-To-Peer World, Rebecca Tushnet
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Today's technology turns every computer - every hard drive - into a type of library. But the institutions traditionally known as libraries have been given special consideration under copyright law, even as commercial endeavors and filesharing programs have begun to emulate some of their functions. This Article explores how recent technological and legal trends are affecting public and school-affiliated libraries, which have special concerns that are not necessarily captured by an end-consumer-oriented analysis. Despite the promise that technology will empower individuals, we must recognize the crucial structural role of intermediaries that select and distribute copyrighted works. By exploring how traditional …
Drm And Privacy, Julie E. Cohen
Drm And Privacy, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Interrogating the relationship between copyright enforcement and privacy raises deeper questions about the nature of privacy and what counts, or ought to count, as privacy invasion in the age of networked digital technologies. This Article begins, in Part II, by identifying the privacy interests that individuals enjoy in their intellectual activities and exploring the different ways in which certain implementations of DRM technologies may threaten those interests. Part III considers the appropriate scope of legal protection for privacy in the context of DRM, and argues that both the common law of privacy and an expanded conception of consumer protection law …
Overcoming Property: Does Copyright Trump Privacy?, Julie E. Cohen
Overcoming Property: Does Copyright Trump Privacy?, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay does not attempt to specify the privacy rights that users might assert against the purveyors of DRM systems. Instead, it undertakes a very preliminary, incomplete exploration of several questions on the "property" side of this debate. What is the relationship between rights in copyrighted works and rights in things or collections of bits embodying works? In particular, as the (popular and legal) understanding of copies of works as residing in "things" becomes largely metaphorical, how should the law construct and enforce boundedness with respect to those copies? Does the calculus of property and contract allow for consideration of …