Jim Flowers: Internet LawNotes from Ilaw - Internet Law Conference - Stanford - 2003(Untitled)- July 4, 2003 Freedom and Political Morality Benkler Regulation of speech &183; Law o Affects speech through formal censorship &167; Smut &183; Lady Chaterly&146;s lover &183; Technology o Brown paper covers o ..http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/04.html#a724 (Untitled)- July 4, 2003 Privacy Jonathan Zittrain Mollie Van Houweling Lessig It is great for you to show up. But you will be rewarded appropriately. We will entertain as many thoughts as possible today. Zittrain Mollie also worked at ICANN longer than she probably wanted to. Privacy is a topic that everyone feels strongly about &150; but when you get into it, it turns into mush. So, while it is interesting, we don&146;t have the answers, and thus it isn&146;t as fun to..http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/04.html#a720 (Untitled)- July 4, 2003 Computer software &150; proprietary legal strategies Fisher Various legal regimes available to software developer Trade Secret Copyright Patent Contract I do not believe software is improperly protected by patent. I don&146;t think the differentiation is so clean (patent vs copyright). But, patent law must be properly constructed. Contract law is much worse, as it has been construed. Trade Secret Trade Secret is state law and thus...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/03.html#a717 (Untitled)- July 3, 2003 Code Debate Can free sw exist with proprietary sw Jason Maslou (Shared resource mgr) Larry Lessig On the surface there is coexistence in the eco-system &150;tension is whether free sw will survive You gots Free -- open &150; shared &150; proprietary So lessig is taking free and open vs proprietary Advantages Zero price Good code Teaching others Strategic behavior But destroy...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/03.html#a716 (Untitled)- July 3, 2003 Free software and commons-based peer-production Yochai Free Software Characteristics ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/03.html#a713 (Untitled)- July 3, 2003 Business Method Patents Revised plan: Fisher to talk on Patent law for first hour. Most other countries in world are hestitating to follow American path on these patents. 5 million patents in world, 82% held in US, Japan and Europe Will describe pertinent features of American law with some splash of differences found in Europe. Utility Patents &150; 95% of US patents Founded on section 101 &150; Inventions patentable Discovery useful process or product (there is a..http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/03.html#a711 (Untitled)- July 3, 2003 Summaries from yesterday at ILAW Frank Field does a great job linking conversations related to the presentations yesterday. And, he captured the last part of the last discussion when my note taking tailed off... Copyfight captures quotes from Zittrain and others. There are some priceless one liners there. Hornik considers the validity of Lessig's comment that we "are on the road to hell" with regards to the future of e2e networks.http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/03.html#a709 (Untitled)- July 3, 2003 Application : Music The future of entertainment : music Professor Charles Nesson Professor Jonathan Zittrain Leslie Vadasz, director emeritus, Intel Corp. Fred von Lohmann, EFF Defending the current business model Towards new business models Fred: EFF wants to preserve the rights you had before the electronic world came along Leslie: Had testified in front of Hollings about protecting digital content. Hollings didn&146;t like what he...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/02.html#a704 (Untitled)- July 2, 2003 Content Market Professor Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School Lessig: If synthesize technology, law and market together you may see a change in the market otherwise not seen directly. You are now ready to be &147;brainwashed&148; to accept this concept of free culture (ok, he&146;s jokin) Free markets, free will, free willie&133; But we are not saying free in terms of cost but in terms of characterization of the ecosystem (free trade vs free...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113212/categories/internetLaw/2003/07/02.html#a702 |