Copyright's Commons recently added its voice to those of public interest groups, librarians, universities, programmers, and researchers in critiquing the DMCA's anticircumvention provision. This civil rights remedy, considered enormously important to the women's movement, has been challenged in a case currently pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. EST on May 1, 2000. In addition, an online discussion will be moderated by Yale Law School Professor Jack M. Balkin, a constitutional law and cyberlaw professor and a contributor to the United States brief in the Violence Against Women Act case. Click on the link below for further details, including registration information, background readings, and instructions on how to participate in our moderated discussion forum.
Electronic communication is increasingly recordable, and, as such, discoverable.
In the sphere of digital discovery, few guidelines have thus far been established. Check out the below URLs for press coverage of the event and Berkman Center Executive Director Jonathan Zittrain's recent testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on the issues at stake. When you're frightened of hyenas all the time, all you think about are hyena defenses. God Neal Stephenson, on how paranoia over Big Brother distracts the technical community from more real and significant dangers, at this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference.