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Guns And Speech Technologies: How The Right To Bear Arms Affects Copyright Regulations Of Speech Technologies, Edward Lee Aug 2008

Guns And Speech Technologies: How The Right To Bear Arms Affects Copyright Regulations Of Speech Technologies, Edward Lee

Edward Lee

This Essay examines the possible effect the Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller will have on future cases brought under the Free Press Clause. Based on the text and history of the Constitution, the connection between the two Clauses is undeniable, as the Heller Court itself repeatedly suggested. Only two provisions in the entire Constitution protect individual rights to a technology: the Second Amendment’s right to bear “arms” and the Free Press Clause’s right to the freedom of the “press,” meaning the printing press. Both rights were viewed, moreover, as preexisting, natural rights to …


Freedom Of The Press 2.0, Edward Lee Dec 2007

Freedom Of The Press 2.0, Edward Lee

Edward Lee

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Introduction: The Future Of Patent Reform (Symposium), Edward Lee Dec 2007

Introduction: The Future Of Patent Reform (Symposium), Edward Lee

Edward Lee

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Freedom Of The Press 2.0, Edward Lee Dec 2007

Freedom Of The Press 2.0, Edward Lee

Edward Lee

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Warming Up To User-Generated Content, Edward Lee Dec 2007

Warming Up To User-Generated Content, Edward Lee

Edward Lee

The most significant copyright development of the twenty first century has not arisen through any law enacted by Congress or opinion rendered by the Supreme Court. Instead, it has come from the unorganized, informal practices of various, unrelated users of copyrighted works, many of whom probably know next to nothing about copyright law. In order to comprehend this paradox, one must look at what is popularly known as "Web 2.0," and the growth of user-generated content in blogs, wikis, podcasts, "mashup" videos, and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Although users often create new works of their own, sometimes …