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U.S. Should Speed Broadband Development
The chairman did identify a kind of regulation that may well explain the slow adoption of broadband technologies by consumers in the United States: copyright. Consumers are slow to adopt broadband because, while there may be an infinite number of channels, there is still nothing on. \"Broadband-intensive content,\" the chairman said, \"is in the hands of major copyright holders.\" These copyright holders have been hesitant to free their content to the net. Their slowness, in turn, has slowed broadband technologies in general. In part, the reason for this slowness has to do with fear of piracy. Under existing technologies, digital content is easily copied; given technologies such as Napster, it is also easily shared. So copyright holders rightly fear that, until they can protect themselves against piracy, their profits will slip through the net. The same sort of change could unleash extraordinary innovation in the context of broadband service now, as Chairman [Michael Powell] expressly suggested. \"Stimulating content creation might involve a re- examination of the copyright laws,\" Powell argued. For, as we've learned from the past, innovation is often the enemy of the old, and the old will do what they can to ensure that innovation doesn't innovate away their power.
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The future of the Internet : and how to stop it
This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity-and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path.
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Fidelity & constraint : how the Supreme Court has read the American constitution
\"The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old--the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document over time. In Fidelity & Constraint, legal scholar Lawrence Lessig explains that one of the most basic approaches to interpreting the constitution is the process of translation. Indeed, some of the most significant shifts in constitutional doctrine are products of the evolution over time of the translation process. In every new era, judges understand their translations as instances of \"interpretive fidelity,\" framed within each new temporal context. Yet, as Lessig also argues, there is a repeatedly occurring countermove that upends the process of translation. Throughout American history, there has been a second fidelity in addition to interpretive fidelity: what Lessig calls \"fidelity to role.\" In each of the cycles of translation that he describes, the role of the judge--the ultimate translator--has evolved too. Old ways of interpreting the text now become illegitimate because they do not match up with the judge's perceived role. And when that conflict occurs, the practice of judges within our tradition has been to follow the guidance of a fidelity to role. Ultimately, Lessig not only shows us how important the concept of translation is to constitutional interpretation, but also exposes the institutional limits on this practice. The first work of both constitutional and foundational theory by one of America's leading legal minds, Fidelity & Constraint maps strategies that both help judges understand the fundamental conflict at the heart of interpretation whenever it arises and work around the limits it inevitably creates\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Good Faith Collaboration
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community--a community of Wikipedians who are expected to \"assume good faith\" when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture. Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Paul Otlet's Universal Repository and H. G. Wells's proposal for a World Brain. Both these projects, like Wikipedia, were fuelled by new technology--which at the time included index cards and microfilm. What distinguishes Wikipedia from these and other more recent ventures is Wikipedia's good-faith collaborative culture, as seen not only in the writing and editing of articles but also in their discussion pages and edit histories. Keeping an open perspective on both knowledge claims and other contributors, Reagle argues, creates an extraordinary collaborative potential. Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been imitated, analyzed, and satirized. Despite the social unease over its implications for individual autonomy, institutional authority, and the character (and quality) of cultural products, Wikipedia's good-faith collaborative culture has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
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