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How Important Is Attribution In Copyright Issues?
Many, many people think that attribution is a key part of copyright law, but in the US it's really not a part of the law at all (with a few tiny, nearly mea…
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Big Brother Wants Your Facebook Password
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Catherine Crump quoted in this BusinessWeek article. If you want to become a state trooper in Virginia, you should probably delete a…
Fight for the Future: Libraries, Tech Policy, and the Fate of Human Knowledge
Keynote talk by Andrew McLaughlin (CIS Non-Residential Fellow) at the 2012 Library Technology Conference held at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (March 14, 201…
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
Book Website Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whethe…
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Carnegie Mellon Study on Censorship and Deletion Practices in Chinese Social Media
An interesting study was released earlier this month by a group at Carnegie Mellon University titled “censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media.…
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Print Edition of Encyclopedia Brittannica (EB) succumbs to Wikipedia
The news this week that that EB discontinues the print edition of the encyclopedia should not too much of a surprise. This should be seen in a larger context.…
Forno Doubts Cyber Attack Sparked Plunge in U.S. Stocks
Richard Forno, a cyber-security expert and principal consultant at KrVW Associates, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman about the security…
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Hate Crimes, CyberBullying & The Rutgers Spy Cam Case
The ruling against Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi, provides stern warnings regarding the punishment for bu…
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FBI Still Struggling With Supreme Court's GPS Ruling
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Catherine Crump interviewed in this NPR story about the FBI struggling with Supreme Court's GPS ruling. Earlier this year, the S…
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Employers Want Facebook Passwords
CIS Affiliate Scholar Woodrow Hartzog interviewed in this CBS-42 story about employers wanting Facebook passwords of their employees: "There are certain th…
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Social Media Put Florida Case In National Spotlight
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Lauren Gelman quoted in this NPR story. The shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida has sparked heated reactions across the…
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Google Steps Into File Sharing Scrap
Marketplace Tech interviews CIS Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone about Google file sharing. If you’re an online company, it’s certain…