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2007

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Full-Text Articles in Computer Law

Electronic Government And Digital Inclusion: Examples From India, Subhajit Basu Jun 2007

Electronic Government And Digital Inclusion: Examples From India, Subhajit Basu

Subhajit Basu

This presentation has two parts: In the first part I look into Development, effect of technology on development, obviously technology provides opportunity to have choices but Can Technology (here ICT) influence development? Digital inclusion is a concept about the disparities in terms of citizens’ participation in the Information Society. This participation may be conceptualised in the first instance as ICT access, levels of use and use patterns. On one hand we have technology which promises of New Dawn for the developing countries, on the other hand only access to technology will not provide development for poor millions of a developing …

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Big Opportunities In Access To “Small Science” Data, Harlan Onsrud, James Campbell Jun 2007

Big Opportunities In Access To “Small Science” Data, Harlan Onsrud, James Campbell

Harlan J Onsrud

A distributed infrastructure that would enable those who wish to do so to contribute their scientific or technical data to a universal digital commons could allow such data to be more readily preserved and accessible among disciplinary domains. Five critical issues that must be addressed in developing an efficient and effective data commons infrastructure are described. We conclude that creation of a distributed infrastructure meeting the critical criteria and deployable throughout the networked university library community is practically achievable.

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Technology And The Practice Of Law: Ethical And Practical Considerations, Mark Gillett Apr 2007

Technology And The Practice Of Law: Ethical And Practical Considerations, Mark Gillett

Mark R Gillett

No abstract provided.

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Consumer Protection: Inside Copyright Law Or Outside?, Joseph Liu Mar 2007

Consumer Protection: Inside Copyright Law Or Outside?, Joseph Liu

Joseph P. Liu

Invited to participate on a panel discussing the impact of consumer protection on copyright law.

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Copyright And Breathing Space, Joseph Liu Dec 2006

Copyright And Breathing Space, Joseph Liu

Joseph P. Liu

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, copyright law's fair use and idea/expression doctrines are "built-in free speech safeguards" that establish a "definitional balance" between copyright and the First Amendment. Yet these "built-in free speech safeguards" are among the most uncertain and ill-defined doctrines in all of copyright law. If we accept the Supreme Court's statement that these doctrines play a critical role as First Amendment safety valves, it follows that the chilling effect of uncertainty in these doctrines has a constitutional dimension. Current copyright law doctrine, however, fails to take into account the potential chilling effect of copyright liability. This …

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Enabling Copyright Consumers, Joseph P. Liu Dec 2006

Enabling Copyright Consumers, Joseph P. Liu

Joseph P. Liu

When is it acceptable for a company to help consumers engage in fair use of copyrighted works? One might think that the answer would be: “always.” After all, a fair use is a privileged use, which copyright grants to consumers of copyrighted works. Shouldn’t a company be entitled to help consumers do this in the most efficient way possible? Shouldn’t such a company, in fact, be lauded for making this process more efficient?
In fact, courts quite frequently hold companies liable for helping consumers engage in activities that would be fair or non-infringing uses if undertaken by consumers themselves. In …

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Chapter 8 - The Contents Of On-Line Contracts, Eliza Mik Dec 2006

Chapter 8 - The Contents Of On-Line Contracts, Eliza Mik

Eliza Mik

No abstract provided.

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Authorship In The Age Of The Conducer, Erez Reuveni Dec 2006

Authorship In The Age Of The Conducer, Erez Reuveni

Erez Reuveni

The age of centralized information production is over. Today, countless creative enterprises involve decentralized collaboration by hundreds of end-users. Yet, the Copyright Act's last major revision occurred over thirty years ago, when a centralized, corporate model of production was the primary means of delivering information products on a mass-market scale. This Article contends that several features of the Copyright Act, remnants of this earlier corporate-driven era, are outmoded and fail to offer optimal incentives for the decentralized, non-profit-driven model of creative production utilized by many in the software and information-production fields. Specifically, the Copyright Act assumes creativity stems from the …

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Evolving Standards & The Future Of The Dmca Anticircumvention Rulemaking, Aaron K. Perzanowski Dec 2006

Evolving Standards & The Future Of The Dmca Anticircumvention Rulemaking, Aaron K. Perzanowski

Aaron K. Perzanowski

Every three years, the Copyright Office conducts a rulemaking to determine temporary exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) anticircumvention provision. These exemptions are designed to prevent likely adverse impacts on noninfringing uses created by the prohibition on removing or bypassing technological protection measures that restrict access to copyrighted works. At the conclusion of the third and most recent rulemaking, the Librarian of Congress, acting on the advice of the Register of Copyrights, announced six classes of works exempt from the DMCA's anticircumvention provision for the three-year period ending October 27, 2009. This Article describes those exemptions and argues …

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