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The Supremacy Of Techno-Governance: Privatization Of Digital Content And Consumer Protection In The Globalized Information Society, Nicola Lucchi
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 …
Dealing With The Reality Of Race And Ethnicity: A Bioethics-Centered Argument In Favor Of Race-Based Genetics Research , Michael J. Malinowski
Dealing With The Reality Of Race And Ethnicity: A Bioethics-Centered Argument In Favor Of Race-Based Genetics Research , Michael J. Malinowski
Michael J. Malinowski
This article challenges proposals to apply law to greatly constrain if not wholly prohibit race-based genetics research with arguments based in bioethics, research pragmatism, and genetic science. The article concludes that proposals to stretch U.S. antidiscrimination jurisprudence to regulate away race and ethnicity in genetics research are misguided at best.
Neuroimaging And The "Complexity" Of Capital Punishment, Orlando Carter Snead
Neuroimaging And The "Complexity" Of Capital Punishment, Orlando Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead
The growing use of brain imaging technology to explore the causes of morally, socially, and legally relevant behavior is the subject of much discussion and controversy in both scholarly and popular circles. From the efforts of cognitive neuroscientists in the courtroom and in the public square, the contours of a project to transform capital sentencing both in principle and practice have emerged. In the short term, such scientists seek to intervene in the process of capital sentencing by serving as mitigation experts for defendants, where they invoke neuroimaging research on the roots of criminal violence to support their arguments. Over …
Fired For Blogging: Are There Legal Protections For Employees Who Blog?, Robert Sprague
Fired For Blogging: Are There Legal Protections For Employees Who Blog?, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
No abstract provided.
Googling Job Applicants: Incorporating Personal Information Into Hiring Decisions, Robert Sprague
Googling Job Applicants: Incorporating Personal Information Into Hiring Decisions, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
No abstract provided.
Business Blogs And Commercial Speech: A New Analytical Framework For The 21st Century, Robert Sprague
Business Blogs And Commercial Speech: A New Analytical Framework For The 21st Century, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
No abstract provided.
From Taylorism To The Omnipticon: Expanding Employee Surveillance Beyond The Workplace, Robert Sprague
From Taylorism To The Omnipticon: Expanding Employee Surveillance Beyond The Workplace, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
No abstract provided.