Center for Internet and Society
Summary: The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is a public interest technology law and policy program at Stanford Law School that brings together scholars, academics, legislators, students, programmers, security researchers, and scientists to study the interaction of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, privacy, public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry. The CIS strives as well to improve both technology and law, encouraging decision makers to design both as a means to further democratic values.
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- Artist: Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
- Copyright: January 2006
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A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Chris Hoofnagle of the Samuelson Law Clinic at Boalt Hall on privacy. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, co-author of "Who Controls The Internet?" About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Carrie McLaren and Charles Star regarding Stay Free! Magazine and the Illegal Art Exhibit. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews eBay's Director of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) and CIS Fellow Colin Rule about dispute resolution at eBay and the broader world of ODR. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Concord Coalition's Legislative Affairs Director Corey Davison about the Federal debt and deficit, as well as technology's impact on politics and policymaking in the United States. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews CIS Resident Fellow David Olson about the active world of patents. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews USC Music Prof. Joanna Demers about her book "Steal This Music". About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews CIS Fellow Christoph Engemann about the advent of the national idenficiation card. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews CIS Fellow Colette Vogele about podcasting and some of its legal issues. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Jennifer Granick about defending hackers and other people changed with computer crimes and/or violations of the law. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews "Dave," a professional on-line poker player. About the Speaker: David S. Levine, Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
DRM strategies for technical copy protection regulate the use of content by imposing "compliance" rules on manufacturers, dictating that devices be designed to chaperone the user. These compliance rules raise concerns for the new balance of copyright being struck by these control mechanisms. But less often discussed are "robustness rules" that accompany them, requiring manufacturers to build their devices to "effectively frustrate" users from investigating the inner workings of the device itself. Not only must the technology regulate its users, it must be inscrutable to them. This aspect of the DRM approach must be examined for its potential implications--not only for manufacturers of entertainment and information technologies, but for users. I will investigate this concern by asking not what it does to limit users, but how it shapes the very possibility of user agency, the sense or knowledge that one can investigate and manipulate their own tools. Recent work in the sociology of technology offers intellectual tools for this consideration, to ask first what users do with their technologies and why this is important, what it means for users to have and experience agency with their own tools, and what a mandated and enforced change in this sense of agency could mean for the life of cultural technologies. About the Speaker: Tarleton Gillespie is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, and affiliated with the Department of Science & Technology Studies and the Program in Information Science. His book, Technology Rules: Copyright and the Re-Alignment of Digital Culture, will be published by MIT Press in early 2007.
As people around the world increasingly interact with each other in cyberspace it is inevitable that disputes will arise. If the internet is to become a trusted environment for both commerce and content, individuals and organizations must have access to redress systems to resolve their online disputes. In the face-to-face world we rely on the courts to address disagreements, but courts are not well designed to handle online disputes because judicial systems are usually too tied to geography and jurisdiction. Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is a better solution for many online conflicts because it is effective, efficient, and trans-boundary by nature. As an organization pioneering the creation of online marketplaces eBay has long acknowledged the need for effective online redress, and that is why eBay and PayPal have invested heavily in ODR processes and partnerships. The work done by eBay in this area offers a blueprint for how other institutions, especially public institutions, can provide redress systems as they steadily move their operations online. About the Speaker: Colin Rule is eBay and PayPal's first Director of Online Dispute Resolution.
The music, film, book, and software industries enforce their copyrights against pirates. But in the much larger global fashion industry, copyright does not protect most original apparel designs, and design "piracy" is a way of life. Why are the rules about copying seemingly so different in the fashion industry? And why is there so little apparent effort by the industry to change those rules? About the Speaker: Chris Sprigman teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, competition policy, and comparative constitutional law at the University of Virgina School of Law. His scholarship focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. Kal Raustiala holds a joint appointment between the UCLA Law School and the UCLA Program on Global Studies, a multidisciplinary undergraduate program on globalization. He teaches courses on international law and international relations.
