Internet Regulations and Intellectual Property

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Required Reading:

  • Julia Angwin. "Google in New Privacy Probes," The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2012. The Wall Street Journal
  • Nick Wingfield. "$550 Million Patent Pact for Facebook and Microsoft," Business Day, The New York Times, April 24, 2012. The Herald Online
  • Somini Sengupta. "Europe Weighs Tough Law on Online Privacy," The New York Times, January 23, 2012. The New York Times
  • Barry Friedman. "Privacy, Technology and Law," The New York Times, January 28, 2012. The New York Times
  • Somini Sengupta. "Big Victory on Internet Buoys Lobby," The New York Times, January 27, 2012. The New York Times

    • References:

  • Jenna Wortham. "Public Outcry Over Antipiracy Bills Began as Grass-Roots Grumbling," The New York Times, January 20, 2012. The New York Times
  • Caroline Flax. "Alumnus Appeals Copyright Verdict to Supreme Court," The Cornell Daily Sun, April 18, 2012. The Cornell Sun
  • Richard A. Posner. "Why There are Too Many Patents in America," The Atlantic, July 24, 2012. The Atlantic
  • Nick Wingfield. "In Apple's Patent Case, Tech Shifts May Follow," The New York Times, August 20, 2012. CNBC
  • Amy Chozick. "Tech and Media Elite are Likely to Debate Piracy," The New York Times, July 10, 2012. The New York Times
  • Joe Palazzolo, Ashby Jones. "Also on Trial: A Judge's Worldview, The Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2012. Factiva
  • Ashby Jones. "Patent'Troll' Tactics Spread," The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2012. The New York Times
  • Brian X. Chen, Nick Bilton. "Android Phones Can Secretly Copy Photos and Post Them on Web," The New York Times, March 2, 2012. The New York Times
  • Mike Masnick. "TV Networks File Legal Claims Saying Skipping Commercials is Copyright Infringement," TechDirt.com. TechDirt
  • The New York Times
  • Caroline Flax. "Alumnus Appeals Copyright Verdict to Supreme Court," The Cornell Daily Sun, April 18, 2012. The Cornell Sun
  • Eduardo Porter. "Competition Needs Protection," The New York Times, April 18, 2012. The New York Times
  • Lori Andrews. "Facebook is Using You," The New York Times, February 4, 2012. The New York Times
  • USACM. Analysis of SOPA's impact on DNS and DNSSEC. USACM
  • Somini Sengupta. "Should Personal Data Be Personal?" The New York Times, February 4, 2012. The New York Times
  • Wikipedia. Megaupload. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload
  • Ben Sisario. "7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site," The New York Times, January 19, 2012. The New York Times
  • Jeremy Kirk. "Google fixes Street View as German launch continues," Computerworld, November 19, 2010. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197340/Google_fixes_Street_View_as_German_launch_continues
  • Geoffrey R. Stone. "A Clear Danger to Free Speech," The New York Times, January 3, 2011. The New York Times
  • Spencer E. Ante. "Inside Napster" Business Week August 14, 2000. Businessweek
  • Amy Schatz. "U.S. Backs Google in Web Fight," (or U.S. as Traffic Cop in Web Fight) WSJ, Sept. 19-20, 2009. The Wall Street Journal
  • Claire Cain Miler, Miguel Helft. "Web Plan From Google and Verizon Is Criticized," The New York Times, August 9, 2010. The New York Times
  • Michael Cieply, Edward Wyatt. "Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet," The New York Times, January 19, 2012. The New York Times
  • Zach Walton. "European Union Proposes New Data Privacy Laws," WebProNews, January 23, 2012. WebProNews
  • Miguel Helft. "Judge Rejects Google's Deal to Digitize Books," The New York Times, March 22, 2011. The New York Times
  • Miguel Helft. "Google's Plan for Out-of-Print Books is Challenged," The New York Times, April 4, 2009. The New York Times
  • April 2012 Orphan Works Symposium, Berkeley Law, University of California, announcement. Berkeley Law
  • David Sohn. "The Legal Gamesmanship Begins," Center for Democracy & Technology, January 21, 2011. CDT
  • "Net Neutrality," PolGu.com. http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Issues/Net%20Neutrality/
  • Kevin Parrish. "FCC Passes Net Neutrality Rules," Tom's Guide US. Tom's Guide
  • Julia Angwin. "Ruling Spurs Debate on Digital Tracking," The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2012. The Wall Street Journal
  • Jess Bravin. "Justices Rein in Police on GPS Trackers," The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2012. The Wall Street Journal
  • Jenna Wortham. "A Political Coming of Age for the Tech Industry," The New York Times, January 17, 2012. The New York Times
  • Christopher S. Stewart, Geofrfrey A. Fowler, Sam Schechner. "New, Old Media Battle Over Net Rules," The Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2012. The Wall Street Journal
  • Policing internet piracy: Accessories after the fact," The Economist, November 26, 2011. The Economist
  • Marguerite Reardon. "FCC chief previews proposed Net neutrality rules," CNET.com, December 1, 2010. CNET
  • "Obama Taps Genachowski, and Tunes the FCC in to Broadband," Businessweek, January 13, 2009. Businessweek
  • Amy Schatz. "US as Traffic Cop in Web Fight," The Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2009. The Wall Street Journal
  • Edward Wyatt and Tanzina Vega. "F.T.C. Backs Plan to Honor Privacy of Online Users," The New York Times, December 1, 2010. The New York Times
  • Virginia Heffernan. "ReWired," The New York Times, December 30, 2010. The New York Times
  • Miguel Helft, Claire Cain Miller. "1986 Privacy Law is Outrun by the Web," The New York Times, January 9, 2011. The New York Times
  • Amy Schatz. "FCC Loses Another Indecency Case," The Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2011. Factiva
  • Cliff Edwards. "Mortal Kombat at the Supreme Court," Businessweek, October 21, 2010. Businessweek
  • Virginia Heffernan. "Granting Anonymity," The Medium, The New York Times, December 17, 2010. The New York Times
  • David Lindley. "A Matter of Privacy," Communications of the ACM, December 2010. The New York Timesli>
  • Andy Greenberg. "Wikileaks' Julian Assange Wants to Spill Your Corporate Secrets," Forbes, November 29, 2010. Forbes
  • Amy Schatz, Shayndi Raice. "Internet Gets New Rules of the Road," The Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • Brian Stelter. "F.C.C. is Set to Regulate Net Access," The New York Times, December 21, 2010. The New York Times
  • Brian Stelter. "F.C.C. Faces Challenges to Net Rules," The New York Times, December 22, 2010. The New York Times
  • Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. "Cable's Lack of Glee," The Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2010. The Wall Street Journal
  • "Netflix to Offer Streaming-only subscriptions," Forbes.com, November 22, 2010. Forbes
  • Amy Schatz, Brent Kendall. "Comcast, NBC Deal Gains Key Supporter," Wall Street Journal, 12/4/10. The Wall Street Journal
  • Cecilia Kang. "FCC to draft net neutrality rules, taking step toward Web regulation," The Washington Post, 10/23/09. The Washington Post
  • Cecilia Kang. "FCC Chief Promises Industry More Spectrum," The Washington Post, Oct. 8, 2009. The Washington Post
  • Colin Crowell. "Hurdles remain as FCC ponders Internet data rules," The Washington Post, Oct. 18, 2009. The Washington Post
  • Stephen H. Wildstrum. "Internet TV Just Got a Lot Closer," Business Week, March 16, 2009. Businessweek
  • Jon Fine. "Local Media Are Getting Slaughtered," the freelibrary.com, April 23, 2009. Freelibrary.com
  • Suzanne Vranica. "U.S. Ad Spending Fell 14% in First Quarter," WSJ, 6/11/09. The Wall Street Journal
  • Russell Adams. "For Sale: Boston Paper w/Union," WSJ, 6/11/09. The Wall Street Journal
  • BETAMAX CASE, The Museum of Broadcast Communications. Museum.TV
  • Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. Wikipedia
  • Eric Savitz. "New Wrinkle in the 700 MHz Spectrum Auction: Bids for Single Use," Barron's, February 4, 2008. Barrons
  • Om Malik. "Five Facts About Google Phone," GIGAOM, Monday, September 3, 2007 GIGAOM
  • Peter Svensson. "FCC Chairman says 'open Internet' rules are vital," Forbes.com 9/21/09. Forbes
  • Miguel Helft. "Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement," NYT 9/21/09.
  • Tom Lowry, Heather Green. "Obama Taps Genachowski, and Tunes the FCC In to Broadband," Business week, 1/13/09. Businessweek
  • Betamax Case. Museum of TV
  • Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. Wikipedia
  • Leslie Cauley. "FCC plans to formalize Internet rules on net neutrality draw fire," USA Today, 12/9/09. USA Today
  • Tom Lowry. "Can the FOB at the FCC Improve the Web PDQ?" Business Week, Feb. 1-8, 2010.
  • Wikipedia. Tragedy of the commons Wikipedia
  • Steve Lohr. "Turning Patents Into 'Invention Capital', The New York Times, February 17, 2010. The New York Times
  • Nathan Myhrvoid. "The Big Idea: Funding Eureka! HBR, March 2010. Harvard Business Review
  • Roger Cheng, Nich Wingfield. "Apple Sues Rival Over Cellphone Patents," March 3, 2010
  • Rachael King. "The 'Troll' That Ticks Off Techies," Businessweek, February 15, 2010. Businessweek
  • John Hooper. "Google executives convicted in Italy over abuse video," February 24, 2010. The Guardian
  • Roben Farzard. "AT & T's iMESS," Businessweek, February 15, 2010. Businessweek
  • Carol Matlack. "Berlusconi vs. Murdoch: Porn as a Pawn," Businessweek, February 15, 2010. Businessweek
  • Sam Schechner, Ethan Smith. "Cable Dispute Disrupts Oscars for Millions," The Wall Street Journal, 3/8/10The Wall Street Journal
  • N.R. Kelinfield. "Oscar Night Suspense, Then Poof! Cable's Back," The New York Times
  • Brian Stelter, Brooks Barnes. "Disney-Cablevision Fight Signifies More to Come," The New York Times, March 8, 2010. The New York Times
  • Miguel Helft. "For Data, Tug Grows Over Privacy vs. Security," The New York Times, August 2, 2010. The New York Times
  • Bobbie Johnson. "America's Broadband Dilemma," Technology Review, July/August 2010.
  • Adam Liptek. "When American and European Ideas of Privacy Collide," The New York Times, February 26, 2010. The New York Times
  • Edward Wyatt. "Google and Verizon Near Deal on Web Pay Tiers," The New York Times, August 4, 2010. The New York Times
  • Maggie Shiels. "Tech industry holds closed door talks on open internet," BBC, August 20, 2010. BBC
  • Kevin J. O'Brien. "Tech Firms Fight European Limits on Cloud Computing," The New York Times, September 20, 2010. The New York Times
  • Nate Anderson. "Supreme Court: "business method" and software patents OK, Arstechnica.com, June 2010. Arstechnica
  • Amy Shatz. "Talks Resume on Internet Traffic," The Wall Street Journal, 8/9/10
  • Steve Lohr. "Software War Pits Oracle Vs. Google," The New York Times, August 30, 2010. The New York Times
  • Edward Wyatt. "F.C.C. Seeks More Input on Wireless Internet Rules," The New York Times, September 2, 2010. The New York Times
  • Nate Andersen. "Supreme Court: 'business method' and software patents OK," ARS Technica. Arstechnica
  • Miguel Helft. "For Data, Tug Grows Over Privacy vs. Security," The New York Times, August 4, 2010. The New York Times
  • Rachel Donadio. "Italy Convicts 3 Google Officials in Privacy Case," The New York Times, 2/510 The New York Times
  • Evan Perez. "New Technologies Prompt Push for Better Wiretap Law," The Wall Street Journal, 9/8/10The Wall Street Journal