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Biometric Id Cybersurveillance, Margaret Hum

Indiana Law Journal

The implementation of a universal digitalized biometric ID system risks normalizing and integrating mass cybersurveillance into the daily lives of ordinary citizens. ID documents such as driver’s licenses in some states and all U.S. passports are now implanted with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. In recent proposals, Congress has considered implementing a digitalized biometric identification card—such as a biometric-based, “high-tech” Social Security Card—which may eventually lead to the development of a universal multimodal biometric database (e.g., the collection of the digital photos, fingerprints, iris scans, and/or DNA of all citizens and noncitizens). Such “hightech” IDs, once merged with GPS-RFID tracking …

Gmonopoly: Does Search Bias Warrant Antitrust Or Regulatory Intervention?, Andrew Langford

Indiana Law Journal

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How Jon Stewart And Lady Gaga Made Congress Less Lame: The Impact Of Social Media On The Passage Of Bills Through The "Lame Duck" Session Of The 111th Congress And Beyond, Onika K. Williams

Indiana Law Journal

The lame duck 111th Congress saw tremendous action in a relatively short period of time, and it was also witness to a phenomenon of social media. Users on websites such as Facebook and Twitter employed social media to send messages to their representatives and to actively participate in the lame duck session. Jon Stewart used television to advocate for Congress’s passing of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, and Lady Gaga employed Twitter to support the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010. Both bills subsequently passed Congress. The social media phenomenon did not end with the …

Copytraps, Ned Snow

Indiana Law Journal

Congress has unintentionally evoked copytraps, which exact thousands of dollars from the Internet user who innocently buys music without knowing that it infringes copyright. Copytraps arise when Web sites lure innocent users into downloading expression that seems legal but is actually infringing. Regardless of whether the Web site appears legitimate, whether a user's good-faith belief is reasonable, or whether the Web site owner is unaware that the material is infringing, users who download infringing material face strict liability punishment, and the penalties are severe. It is entrapment, with the spoils from the innocent going to large corporate copyright holders. The …

Maintaining Government Accountability: Calls For A "Public Use" Beyond Eminent Domain, Gregory S. Knapp

Indiana Law Journal

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A Technological Theory Of The Arms Race, Lee Kovarsky

Indiana Law Journal

Although the "technological arms race" has recently emerged as a vogue-ish piece of legal terminology, scholarship has quite conspicuously failed to explore the phenomenon systematically. What are "technological" arms races? Why do they happen? Does the recent spike in scholarly attention actually reflect their novelty? Are they always inefficient? How do they differ from military ones? What role can legal institutions play in slowing them down?

In this Article I seek to answer these questions. I argue that copyright enforcement and self-help represent substitutable tactics for regulating access to expressive assets, and that the efficacy of each tactic depends on …

Toward A Unified Test Of Personal Jurisdiction In An Era Of Widely Diffused Wrongs: The Relevance Of Purpose And Effects, C. Douglas Floyd, Shima Baradaran-Robison

Indiana Law Journal

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Slow And Steady Does Not Always Win The Race: The Nuremberg Files Web Site And What It Should Teach Us About Incitement And The Internet, Nadine E. Mcspadden

Indiana Law Journal

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"Click Here To Buy The Next Microsoft": The Penny Stock Rules, Online Microcap Fraud, And The Unwary Investor, Kevin C. Bartels

Indiana Law Journal

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Securities Regulation In The Electronic Era: Private Placements And The Internet, Todd A. Mazur

Indiana Law Journal

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Protecting The Digital Consumer: The Limits Of Cyberspace Utopianism, John Rothchild

Indiana Law Journal

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Legitimacy And Authority In Internet Coordination: A Domain Name Case Study, Joseph P. Liu

Indiana Law Journal

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Computers As Agents: A Proposed Approach To Revised U.C.C. Article 2, John P. Fischer

Indiana Law Journal

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The Presence Of A Web Site As A Constitutionally Permissible Basis For Personal Jurisdiction, Christine E. Mayewski

Indiana Law Journal

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Fixation On Fixation: Why Imposing Old Copyright Law On New Technology Will Not Work, Douglas J. Mason

Indiana Law Journal

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The Computer As Advocate: An Approach To Computer-Generated Displays In The Courtroom, Mario Borelli

Indiana Law Journal

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Bent Fish: Issues Of Ownership And Infringement In Digitally Processed Images, John Gastineau

Indiana Law Journal

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Law, Lawyers, And Legal Practice In Silicon Valley: A Preliminary Report, Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert W. Gordon, Sophie Pirie, Edwin Whatley

Indiana Law Journal

The Growth of Large Law Firms and Its Effect on the Legal Profession and Legal Education, Symposium

The Patentability Of Computer Programs: Merrill Lynch's Patent For A Financial Services System, Lynne B. Allen

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.