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Structural Rights In Privacy, Harry Surden
Structural Rights In Privacy, Harry Surden
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This Essay challenges the view that privacy interests are protected primarily by law. Based upon the understanding that society relies upon nonlegal devices such as markets, norms, and structure to regulate human behavior, this Essay calls attention to a class of regulatory devices known as latent structural constraints and provides a positive account of their role in regulating privacy. Structural constraints are physical or technological barriers which regulate conduct; they can be either explicit or latent. An example of an explicit structural constraint is a fence which is designed to prevent entry onto real property, thereby effectively enforcing property rights. …
The Internet, Innovation, And Intellectual Property Policy, Philip J. Weiser
The Internet, Innovation, And Intellectual Property Policy, Philip J. Weiser
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The Internet continues to transform the information industries and challenge intellectual property law to develop a competition policy strategy to regulate networked products. In particular, inventors of "information platforms" that support the viewing of content-be they instant messaging systems, media players, or Web browsers-face a muddled set of legal doctrines that govern the scope of available intellectual property protection. This uncertainty reflects a fundamental debate about what conditions will best facilitate innovation in the information industries--a debate most often played out at the conceptual extremes between the "commons" and "proprietary control" approaches to the Internet and intellectual property policy.
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Regulatory Challenges And Models Of Regulation, Philip J. Weiser
Regulatory Challenges And Models Of Regulation, Philip J. Weiser
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