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Architectures of Control in Product Design
At Cambridge University, Dan Lockton is working on an interesting MPhil dissertation topic that is becoming more and more important: designing products with fea…
Stefan Bechtold
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Dreier/Hugenholtz Commentary
Commentary on the Directive 2001/29/EC on the Harmonization of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society, in: Dreier/Hugenholtz…
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DRM AJCL
Digital Rights Management in the United States and Europe, 52 American Journal of Comparative Law 323-382 (2004).…
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TC talk Stanford
Trusted Computing - Whom do we trust? Different versions of a talk at the CIS at Stanford Law School, March 28, 2005: slides, audio version, synchronized audio…
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CIS talk slides
The slides of my recent talk about trusted computing at the CIS in Stanford are now available online.…
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DRM in Gaming
Some information about digital rights management systems used in computer games may be found here.…
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Allocating trust within TC
One of the features offered by TC is that it transforms trust in entities into trust in components (see here on pp. 644-645 for an explanation). In such an appr…
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Local attestation
One of the criticisms raised against trusted computing is that it solves some potential problems of the future without doing the homework first that precedes th…
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Supreme Court
So, today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases that may profoundly shape U.S. cyberlaw and may also affect cyberlaw in other countries. For more informat…
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P2P in the wake of the Grokster case
So here is another potential example of an application of P2P systems that might even be helpful from the music industry's perspective.…
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Labeling as an answer to DRM?
Indicare has an interesting article> written by Natali Helberger about the advantages and limitations of labeling requirements as an answer to DRM. Such labe…
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A world of region-coding
At the 3rd DRM conference this January in Berlin, Ross Anderson gave a dinner speech in which he envisaged a world suffused by region-coding technology (imagine…