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Disincentives To Data Breach: Problems With Notification And Future Legislative Possibilities, Ross Schulman Sep 2010

Disincentives To Data Breach: Problems With Notification And Future Legislative Possibilities, Ross Schulman

Legislation and Policy Brief

In the modern digitized and networked world, personal identifying information has quickly become a commodity that can be traded, sold, or given away like any other. The uses and potential abuses of personal identifying information, however, distinguish this commodity from any other. Personal identifying information can be copied infinitely, is often not protected nearly as well as physical commodities, and, most importantly, can have particular importance to the person identified by that information. The producer of a bushel of apples presumably cares very little about where his apples end up, as long as he is paid for them to begin …


Caster Semenya And The Myth Of A Level Playing Field, Erin E. Buzuvis Jan 2010

Caster Semenya And The Myth Of A Level Playing Field, Erin E. Buzuvis

The Modern American

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Readily Deployable Approaches To Geoengineering: Cool Materials And Aggressive Reforestation, Max G. Bronstein Jan 2010

Readily Deployable Approaches To Geoengineering: Cool Materials And Aggressive Reforestation, Max G. Bronstein

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Law, Science, And The Continental Shelf: The Russian Federation And The Promise Of Arctic Cooperation, Betsy Baker Jan 2010

Law, Science, And The Continental Shelf: The Russian Federation And The Promise Of Arctic Cooperation, Betsy Baker

American University International Law Review

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Introduction To Essays On The Future Of Digital Communications, Fernando Laguarda Jan 2010

Introduction To Essays On The Future Of Digital Communications, Fernando Laguarda

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

INTRODUCTION: The Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications is pleased to have supported the five essays in this Federal Communications Law Journal symposium. We launched the research program with the goal of encouraging debate and discussion on ideas of importance to the future of our industry and its role in the communities we serve. We hope to do so by providing a new forum for scholars to engage with the community of stakeholders who make and influence policy. We want to encourage increased dialogue and generate new ideas that bring us closer to solving the challenges we face. …


The Statute Of Anne: Today And Tomorrow, Peter Jaszi, Craig Joyce, Marshall A. Leaffer, Tyler Trent Ochoa Jan 2010

The Statute Of Anne: Today And Tomorrow, Peter Jaszi, Craig Joyce, Marshall A. Leaffer, Tyler Trent Ochoa

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This essay provides the epilogue to the University of Houston’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law’s 2010 National Conference, “The ©©© Conference: Celebrating Copyright’s tri-Centennial,” in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The conference focused on the Statute of Anne, the first copyright statute ever, anywhere, enacted by the British Parliament in 1710.

Copyright law in the United States, the lineal descendant of the Statute of Anne, has managed to negotiate a course between over-protecting and under-protecting copyrighted matter, and to strike at least a rough balance between the social interest in securing capital investment, on the one hand, and encouraging …