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A Cognitive Theory Of The Third-Party Doctrine And Digital Papers, H. Brian Holland Nov 2018

A Cognitive Theory Of The Third-Party Doctrine And Digital Papers, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

For nearly 200 years, an individual’s personal papers enjoyed near-absolute protection from government search and seizure. That is no longer the case. With the widespread adoption of cloud-based information processing and storage services, the third-party doctrine operates to effectively strip our digital papers of meaningful Fourth Amendment protections.

This Article presents a new approach to reconciling current third-party doctrine with the technological realities of modern personal information processing. Our most sensitive data is now processed and stored on cloud computing systems owned and operated by third parties.  Although we may consider these services to be private and generally secure, the …


Section 230 Of The Cda: Internet Exceptionalism As A Statutory Construct, H. Brian Holland Jun 2018

Section 230 Of The Cda: Internet Exceptionalism As A Statutory Construct, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

Since its enactment in 1996, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has become perhaps the most significant statute in the regulation of online content, and one of the most intensely scrutinized.

The essay begins with a brief introduction to Section 230. As interpreted and applied by the judiciary, this statute is now conceived as a broad grant of immunity from tort liability.—broad not only in terms of those who can claim its protection but also in terms of predicate acts and causes of action to which such immunity extends.

Working from this foundation, I then seek to position the …


We Are All Cyborgs Now: A Cognitive Theory Of The Third-Party Doctrine, H. Brian Holland Mar 2016

We Are All Cyborgs Now: A Cognitive Theory Of The Third-Party Doctrine, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Nsa Surveillance: Challenging The Global Reach Of U.S. Tech., H. Brian Holland Aug 2015

Nsa Surveillance: Challenging The Global Reach Of U.S. Tech., H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


The Failure Of The Rule Of Law In Cyberspace: Reorienting The Normative Debate On Borders And Territorial Sovereignty, H. Brian Holland Jul 2015

The Failure Of The Rule Of Law In Cyberspace: Reorienting The Normative Debate On Borders And Territorial Sovereignty, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

The ultimate goal of this article is to suggest a different perspective on the issue of extraterritorial regulation in cyberspace.

Between 1996 and 2002, over the course of several law review articles, professors David R. Johnson, David Post, and Jack L. Goldsmith engaged in a highly influential debate addressing the significance and legitimacy of physical, geographically-defined borders and territorial sovereignty in the regulation of cyberspace. At bottom, it was a contest between internal or indigenous regulation and the imposition of existing external regimes. At its heart lay two overarching areas of disagreement: First, descriptively, whether and to what extent the …


Privacy Paradox 2.0, H. Brian Holland Jul 2015

Privacy Paradox 2.0, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

As a starting point, this essay offers six basic propositions. First, "the 'privacy paradox' " refers to inconsistencies "between individuals' [asserted] intentions to disclose personal information and [individuals'] actual ... disclosure behaviors." Put simply, we indicate-at a granular level-specific items of personal information that we will not disclose, but we then give away that same data with what appears to be little regard for the risks of doing so and for little in return. Second, the privacy paradox is a wellestablished concept in many fields of the social sciences, even though the precise contours and causes of the paradox are …


Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland Jul 2015

Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

Fair use is perhaps the most contested doctrine in all of copyright law. New technologies that not only enable increased audience engagement with cultural works, but also facilitate the use of these "raw materials" to produce new works have made fair use more controversial. At another level, these technologies have made visible an audience, not of passive content consumers, but of active participants in discourse around and about those works.

This Article presents an argument for an expansion of fair use based on social semiotic theory, rather than on theories of authorship or rights of autonomy of subsequent authors. Instead, …


Tempest In A Teapot Or Tidal Wave - Cybersquatting Rights And Remedies Run Amok, H. Brian Holland Jul 2015

Tempest In A Teapot Or Tidal Wave - Cybersquatting Rights And Remedies Run Amok, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

The conflict at the heart of cybersquatting is in many ways conceptual. To most of its early inhabitants, the Internet embodied a separate and distinct environment --a territory unto itself. As such, it was thought the online world would stand separate from existing governmental power structures premised on the idea of territorial sovereignty. This separateness placed online actors theoretically beyond the authority of established legal systems, whose validity appeared limited by territorial boundaries and the sovereign-subject relationships occurring in the off-line world. Indeed, what many envisioned was an opportunity to create a self-regulating community existing within the "territory" of the …


In Defense On Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland Jul 2015

In Defense On Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

In the ten years since its enactment, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) has become perhaps the single most significant statute in the regulation of online content, and one of the most heavily criticized. Many early commentators criticized both Congress, for its apparent inability to craft the more limited statute it intended, and the courts, for interpreting the statute broadly and failing to limit its reach. Later commentators focus more clearly on policy concerns, contending that the failure to impose liability on intermediaries fails to effectuate principles of efficiency and cost avoidance.

This article takes the …


Inherently Dangerous: The Potential For An Internet-Specific Standard Restricting Speech That Performs A Teaching Function, H. Brian Holland Jul 2015

Inherently Dangerous: The Potential For An Internet-Specific Standard Restricting Speech That Performs A Teaching Function, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

Real or not, we perceive the convergence of several dangers-the physical threat of terrorism, both foreign and domestic; the economic threat of recession, corporate scandal, and globalization; and the social threat of new technology that connects, informs, exposes, and overwhelms us. At this moment, certain First Amendment protections are ripe for circumscription. The question, then, is whether our constitutional right of free speech is relative and conditional. The populist answer is yes. The legal answer is much more complicated.

To that end, this Article carries three goals. The first is to highlight parallel signals from the three branches of government …


Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland Sep 2011

Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


A Social Semiotic Approach To Copyright Law, H. Brian Holland Sep 2011

A Social Semiotic Approach To Copyright Law, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Social Semiotics In The Infringement Analysis: Excluding Unprotected Elements, H. Brian Holland Jun 2011

Social Semiotics In The Infringement Analysis: Excluding Unprotected Elements, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Social Semiotics, Originality And Authorship In Copyright Law, H. Brian Holland Mar 2011

Social Semiotics, Originality And Authorship In Copyright Law, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Internet Exceptionalism As A Statutory Construct, H. Brian Holland Dec 2010

Internet Exceptionalism As A Statutory Construct, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland Oct 2010

Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

Social Semiotics in the Fair Use Analysis
34,314 words (including 380 footnotes)
This article presents an alternate theory of fair use, employing social semiotics as a process theory of meaning-making to frame the transformativeness inquiry. It is an argument for an expansion of fair use based not on theories of authorship or rights of autonomy, but rather a theory of the audience linked to social practice. The article asks, in essence, whether audiences determine the meaning, purpose, function, or social benefit of an allegedly infringing work, often regardless of what the work’s creator did or intended. If so, does this …


Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland Oct 2010

Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

Social Semiotics in the Fair Use Analysis
34,314 words
3,809 footnotes (Bluebook formatted)
This article presents an alternate theory of fair use, employing social semiotics as a process theory of meaning-making to frame the transformativeness inquiry. It is an argument for an expansion of fair use based not on theories of authorship or rights of autonomy, but rather a theory of the audience linked to social practice. The article asks, in essence, whether audiences determine the meaning, purpose, function, or social benefit of an allegedly infringing work, often regardless of what the work’s creator did or intended. If so, does …


Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland Jul 2010

Social Semiotics In The Fair Use Analysis, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Transformative Fair Use Through A Social Semiotic Frame, H. Brian Holland Feb 2010

Transformative Fair Use Through A Social Semiotic Frame, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Transformative Fair Use Through A Social Semiotic Frame, H. Brian Holland Feb 2010

Transformative Fair Use Through A Social Semiotic Frame, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Social Distortion: Regulating Privacy In Social Networks, H. Brian Holland Jan 2010

Social Distortion: Regulating Privacy In Social Networks, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Transformative Fair Use Through A Social Semiotic Frame, H. Brian Holland Sep 2009

Transformative Fair Use Through A Social Semiotic Frame, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Social Distortion: Regulating Privacy In Social Networks, H. Brian Holland Sep 2008

Social Distortion: Regulating Privacy In Social Networks, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Regulating Strategic Data Disclosure On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland Apr 2008

Regulating Strategic Data Disclosure On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Regulating Strategic Data Disclosure On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland Apr 2008

Regulating Strategic Data Disclosure On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


The Right To Compartmentalize? Privacy Expectations And Practices Of Job Applicants On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland Apr 2008

The Right To Compartmentalize? Privacy Expectations And Practices Of Job Applicants On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


Regulating Strategic Data Disclosure On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland Mar 2008

Regulating Strategic Data Disclosure On Social Network Sites, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland Jan 2007

In Defense Of Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland Dec 2006

In Defense Of Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland Dec 2006

In Defense Of Online Intermediary Immunity: Facilitating Communities Of Modified Exceptionalism, H. Brian Holland

H. Brian Holland

No abstract provided.