Tag Archives: Law & Policy

Guest lecture

By alex | Published: 11/17/2004
The timing couldn’t be better. Why would I lecture on issues of remixing culture, when I can have Ed Felton as a guest lecturer? Go and watch “Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the Fight to Control Digital Media”. Great stuff. (And also a nice use of Powerpoint.)
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CFP CFP

By alex | Published: 11/16/2004
The CFP is out for the 2005 Computers, Freedom, Privacy conference is out: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE PANOPTICON APRIL 12-15, 2005 WESTIN HOTEL, SEATTLE, WA The 15th annual conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy takes place from Tuesday, April 12th, to Friday, April 15th, 2005, in Seattle, Washington. The Program Committee is now accepting […]
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Good news for gamble-preneurs?

By alex | Published: 11/10/2004
We talked earlier tonight, with some relish (does that count?), about the prospects of online gambling and questions of regulatory ambiguity and arbitrage. Seems that there is some interesting movement on this front. Is no one blogging on gambling regulation? I guess this is as close as you’ll get.
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Owning bits

By alex | Published: 11/9/2004
Owning Ideas Many people think of software pirates as fundamentally unethical. Stealing is stealing, they say. Yet, the history of software being something someone “owns” is not so very long. There was a time, not so long ago, when the very idea that you could “sell” software would be crazy. You could sell the material […]
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