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Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder Aug 2019

Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder

Duke Law & Technology Review

No abstract provided.


Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy Of Mind On The Global Net, John Perry Barlow Aug 2019

Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy Of Mind On The Global Net, John Perry Barlow

Duke Law & Technology Review

No abstract provided.


The Enigma Of Digitized Property A Tribute To John Perry Barlow, Pamela Samuelson, Kathryn Hashimoto Aug 2019

The Enigma Of Digitized Property A Tribute To John Perry Barlow, Pamela Samuelson, Kathryn Hashimoto

Duke Law & Technology Review

No abstract provided.


The Past And Future Of The Internet: A Symposium For John Perry Barlow Aug 2019

The Past And Future Of The Internet: A Symposium For John Perry Barlow

Duke Law & Technology Review

No abstract provided.


Internet Utopianism And The Practical Inevitability Of Law, Julie E. Cohen Jan 2019

Internet Utopianism And The Practical Inevitability Of Law, Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

"Writing at the dawn of the digital era, John Perry Barlow proclaimed cyberspace to be a new domain of pure freedom. Addressing the nations of the world, he cautioned that their laws, which were “based on matter,” simply did not speak to conduct in the new virtual realm. As both Barlow and the cyberlaw scholars who took up his call recognized, that was not so much a statement of fact as it was an exercise in deliberate utopianism. But it has proved prescient in a way that they certainly did not intend. The “laws” that increasingly have no meaning in …


Everything Old Is New Again: Does The '.Sucks' Gtld Change The Regulatory Paradigm In North America?, Jacqueline D. Lipton Jan 2019

Everything Old Is New Again: Does The '.Sucks' Gtld Change The Regulatory Paradigm In North America?, Jacqueline D. Lipton

Articles

In 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) took the unprecedented step of opening up the generic Top Level Domain (“gTLD”) space for entities who wanted to run registries for any new alphanumeric string “to the right of the dot” in a domain name. After a number of years of vetting applications, the first round of new gTLDs was released in 2013, and those gTLDs began to come online shortly thereafter. One of the more contentious of these gTLDs was “.sucks” which came online in 2015. The original application for the “.sucks” registry was somewhat contentious with …