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The Future Of Music: Reconfiguring Public Performance Rights, Gary Myers, George Howard
The Future Of Music: Reconfiguring Public Performance Rights, Gary Myers, George Howard
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This article focuses on two concrete measures to improve the music industry prognosis. Public performance rights have long been an important piece of the economic pie that helps support the music business. This article suggests that the scope of public performance rights should be fundamentally reassessed and expanded. This expansion involves two specific and complementary reconfigurations.
Discriminatory Housing Advertisements On-Line: Lessons From Craigslist, Rigel C. Oliveri
Discriminatory Housing Advertisements On-Line: Lessons From Craigslist, Rigel C. Oliveri
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The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to publish discriminatory housing advertisements. This has long been applied to newspapers, which have effectively screened all discriminatory housing ads from sight. However, in 1996 Congress created a loophole when it immunized website operators from liability for the content posted to their sites by third parties. Without publisher liability, websites have no incentive to screen out discriminatory housing ads. The result is that such ads are proliferating in cyberspace.While this situation is problematic from a fair housing standpoint, it presents a valuable opportunity. For the first time in a generation discriminatory housing advertisements …
Wikipedia's Labor Squeeze And Its Consequences, Eric Goldman
Wikipedia's Labor Squeeze And Its Consequences, Eric Goldman
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This Essay explains why Wikipedia will not be able to maintain a credible website while simultaneously letting anyone freely edit it. To date, Wikipedia editors have successfully defended against malicious attacks from spammers and vandals, but as editors turn over, Wikipedia will need to recruit replacements. However, Wikipedia will have difficulty with this recruiting task due to its limited incentives for participation. Faced with a potential labor squeeze, Wikipedia will choose to restrict users’ ability to contribute to the site as a way of preserving site credibility. Wikipedia’s specific configuration choices make it an interesting test case to evaluate the …