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The Supremacy Of Techno-Governance: Privatization Of Digital Content And Consumer Protection In The Globalized Information Society, Nicola Lucchi Jun 2007

The Supremacy Of Techno-Governance: Privatization Of Digital Content And Consumer Protection In The Globalized Information Society, Nicola Lucchi

Nicola Lucchi

The article aims to describe the role of technology and contract in regulating access to digital content deregulating intellectual property law monopoly. In particular it argues that the anti-circumvention provisions for technological protection measures and digital rights management systems enacted in the United States and in Europe compromise the consumer’s capacity to exercise legitimate rights, such as the private use exemption, by giving content owners extralegal protection for their works. It also analyses how these acts have caused an inappropriate delegation of governmental decision making to a non-governmental entity with a consequent privatization of the government’s role in protecting intellectual …


From Face-To-Face To Screen-To-Screen: Real Hope Or True Fallacy, Philippe Gilliéron May 2007

From Face-To-Face To Screen-To-Screen: Real Hope Or True Fallacy, Philippe Gilliéron

Philippe Gilliéron

The development of e-commerce involves the implementation of effective Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) methods. While the enactment of ODR methods is made particularly easy thanks to the technological tools at disposal, their mere implementation does still not ensure their efficiency. ODR has drawn much attention in legal scholarships in recent years. Strangely enough, hardly any scholar has however focused on a key factor for the good development of ODR: differences between face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions. After having described the current state of literature related to ODR, I shall focus more specifically on these differences based upon experiments conducted in the …


Some Job Hunters Are What They Post, Michael D. Mann Apr 2007

Some Job Hunters Are What They Post, Michael D. Mann

Michael D. Mann

Plug a prospective employee's name into an Internet search engine, and you might be surprised at what you find. Web pages may tell hiring attorneys that the person they just interviewed wrote for an undergraduate newspaper or belonged to a specific sorority, but the Web may also reveal the recent interviewee's drink of choice and dating status. Law firms can use the Internet for their own recruiting needs, says attorney Michael D. Mann, but they should take what they read on the Web with a grain of salt.


Letting Katz Out Of The Bag: Cognitive Freedom And Fourth Amendment Fidelity, Christian Halliburton Feb 2007

Letting Katz Out Of The Bag: Cognitive Freedom And Fourth Amendment Fidelity, Christian Halliburton

Erin Espedal

Emerging surveillance technologies now allow operators to collect information located within the brain of an individual, allow the collection of forensic evidence regarding cerebral and cognitive processes, and are even beginning to be able to predict human intentions. While science has not yet produced a mind-reading machine per se, the devices referred to as “cognitive camera technologies” are substantial steps in the direction of that inevitable result. One such technique, a proprietary method called Brain Fingerprinting, is used as an example of the strong trend towards increasingly invasive and ever more powerful surveillance methods, and provides an entrée to a …


The Advocacy And Technology Institute: Real-World Training Using Real-World Tools, John F. Nivala Dec 2006

The Advocacy And Technology Institute: Real-World Training Using Real-World Tools, John F. Nivala

John F. Nivala

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