P80X POLITICS OF THE INTERNET:
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This index displays the ten instructional weeks of the course Politics 80X: Politics of the Internet [Fall Quarter 1998]. The hot links lead to material supporting the lectures. The syllabus shows required reading and course requirements. Last revised: 98.09.30.
TOPICS TOPICS TOPICS
Week Topic
0 INTRODUCTION
1 ORIGINS OF THE INTERNET
2 ACCESS
3 PRIVACY
4 SECURITY OF THE NET
Week Topics
5 SECURE COMMERCE?
6 SECURITY OF SOCIETY
7 INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY RIGHTS
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8 FREE SPEECH
9 TAXATION & REGULATION
10 POLITICAL DESIGN
Assigned Works:

Cairncross, Frances. The Death of Distance (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997).

Grossman, Lawrence K. The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age (Penguin, 1996).

Grossman, Wendy M. net.wars (New York: New York University Press, 1997).

Loader, Brian [ed]. The Governance of Cyberspace: Politics, Technology, and Global Restructuring (Routledge, 1997).

0 Introduction
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Overview. The syllabus: topics and reading list. Lectures and on-line documents. What will we study? How to approach the material? What performances are required?
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0 The Study Guide [Note 0.1]
1 The Bibliography [Note 0.2]
2 The syllabus describes the course, required books, and assignments.
3 Bruce Larkin's personal entry page gives you access to his site, including more on his professional interests.
1 To see how this course fits into the Politics curriculum, consult Politics' synoptic schedule for 1998-99.
2 You can contact Professor Larkin by email to larkin@learnworld.com.
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1 UCSC students with computer network questions might start at the CATS Information Resource Center web page.
2 CATS also explains its Instructional Computing Labs on line.
3 The UC Library Catalog [Melvyl] is accessible on the web. But you may find contacting Melvyl by telnet faster and easier to save search results: log in to your UNIX or Athena account and at the prompt write "telnet melvyl" and then a return.
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7 Nov		 You will find helpful for following current issues the daily-archived version of Red Rock Eater News Service, a mailing list organized by Phil Agre of UCLA. You can also subscribe to receive despatches by email.
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1 Here are some prime sites for this course, with material on every topic, start with net.politics.
2 The New York Times CyberTimes.
3 Internet Society
4 Electronic Frontier Foundation
5 Center for Democracy and Technology
6 TechWeb: "the technology news site."
7 Gary Chapman's syllabus for the graduate seminar PAF388K Public Policy and the Internet taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, and his Resources on the Internet and Public Policy: A selected guide.
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7 Oct		 civic.com: information for IT professionals in state and local government.

1 Origins
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Political origins of the Internet. Design of the Web. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3). The domain name controversy. "North-South" differences. Standards. HTML. Browser competition [MicroSoft vs. Netscape].
Reading from Assigned Books:
  • net.wars: Chapters 1-2, 14-16
  • distance: Chapters 1-3.
  • electronic: Foreword & Chapter 1.
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    October 5    		 WEDNESDAY
    October 7    		 FRIDAY
    October 9
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    0 Lecture Notes [Notes 01.1] on historical steps.
    1 Michael Hauben and Ronda Hauben, "Behind the Net: The Untold Story of the ARPANET and Computer Science," Chapter 7 of Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and Internet (IEEE Computer Society, 1997). This and other chapters were issued on-line by First Monday.
    2 W3C: the World Wide Web Consortium, where the Web began.
    3 An elementary summary of the web & how it works [W3C].
    4 The original 1991 HTML, described by Tim Berners-Lee.
    5 Tim Berners-Lee talking points at launch of W3C.
    6 David Jones' internet history.
    7 net.politics' internet domain name controversy pages.
    8 Internet Society list of internet histories.
    9 Hobbes' Internet Timeline with graphs of internet and web growth.
    10 Descriptions of the key groups governing the Internet.
    11 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
    12 Internet Architecture Board page "What Does the IAB Do, Anyway?" [Brian Carpenter]
    13 The Internet Engineering Task Force [IETF]. More at "The Tao of the IETF," more fully explaining what the IETF does.
    14 The International Congress of Independent Internet Users champions people who "buy Internet services and do not sell them."
    15 World Internetworking Alliance (WIA). This page contains many links on the domain name controversy, and a chart [& link to table] of groups in Internet governance.
    16 Detailed 1972- .. list of the activity which is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA].
    17 Table of Communities and Parties of the Internet.
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    0 Lecture Notes [Note 1.2], on the Domain Name System, including the DNS Path graphic used in class.
    1 IHAC: International ad Hoc Committee, which developed the gTLD-MoU (generic Top Level Domains-Memorandum of Understanding) proposal on domain names. Concluded 1 May 1997.
    2 gTLD-MoU: entity anticipated by the Memorandum of Understanding. Excellent documents and links on the domain name issue.
    3 The Berkman Center at Harvard Law School maintains a White Paper Working Drafts Comparison Site on similarities and differences among domain name proposals.
    4 International Forum on the White Paper on the domain issue.
    5 A 15 December 1997 report on expanding membership of the US policy body working on domain names.
    6 8 September 1998 report on corporate funding of the new domain allocator, which will assume control of domain allocation. Also see the corresponding Internet Society report.
    7 World Intellecutal Property Organization [WIPO] schedule of consultations in Sep & Oct 1998 on domain name issues.
    8 US Department of Commerce, 20 February 1998, proposed rule on the Internet Domain Name System. Who will allocate domains?
    9 The Joint Statement of 17 September 1998 issued by IANA and NSI, introducing their agreed proposals [By-Laws and Articles of Incorporation] for a new entity assigning internet addresses.
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    27 Nov    		 Jeri Clausing, "New Internet Board Could Shake Up Country Domains" The New York Times, 27 November 1998.
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    29 Nov    		 Network Working Group RFC 1591, "Domain Name System Structure and Designation" [July 1994], Jon Postel, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California.
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    1 The Thursday 8 October New York Times published a detailed review of charges that Microsoft has misused its market position.
    2 How do browsers differ? Check out Netscape Communicator and
    3 MicroSoft Internet Explorer.
    4 Of course, there are others, for example Opera.
    5 Links on Microsoft competition charges [Yahoo!].
    6 Prepared testimony of witnesses at the 3 March 1998 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on "Market Power and Structural Change in the Software Industry." [Gates, Barksdale, McNealy &c.]
    7 On the Microsoft suit, Week 5 has some additional links.
    8 North-South issues are treated as 'Access' questions in Week 2.

    2 Access
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    Access. "Citizenship." Exclusion. Costs. One net, or several nets? Marginalisation. English-language hegemony? "North-South" differences?
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • net.wars: Chapters 8, 13.
  • distance: Chapter 4.
  • electronic: Chapters 2-3.
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    October 12    		 WEDNESDAY
    October 14    		 FRIDAY
    October 16
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    1 MIDS' Map of the Internet [hosts by country].
    2 Network Wizards' Internet Domain Survey. The July 1998 survey returned an estimated 36,739,000 hosts on the Net. Method.
    3 Falling Through the Net II. July 1998. US Department of Commerce. Census-based findings on differential access by ethnic identity, urban-rural location, income, &c.
    4 Falling Through the Net: A Survey of the 'Have-Nots' in Rural and Urban America. This is the 1995 report, cited as Falling Through the Net I", which preceded the report cited above.
    5 Press release announcing the study The Internet and Poverty: Real Help or Real Hype? on third world access to the net.
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    1 "Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use" . Thomas P. Novak and Donna L. Hoffman. A briefer version was published in Science 18 April 1998.
    2 A New York Times report of the Hoffman-Novak study was published on 17 April 1998.
    3 Michel Marriott, "As More Non-English Speakers Log On, Many Languages Thrive." The New York Times, 18 June 1998. [Free registration will be required to access this and other Times articles.]
    4 Mark Landler, The New York Times 3 August 1998, writes about the China Internet Corporation and its plan for a China Wide Web unconnected to the Web we know.
    5 Another Mark Landler piece from The New York Times [13 April 1998] on Richard Li's plans to bring the Internet to Asia, with a table showing home computer ownership and Net use in selected Asian countries.
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    18 Oct    		 Lecture Note 02.3: What is Politics? in Larkin's world. Politics as negotiation.
    1 US Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley letter to the FCC on the E-rate [subsidizing school internet access]. 31 July 1997.
    2 Where Did the E-rate Come From? [Education and Library Networks Coalition (EdLiNC)]
    3 Political Controls [Note 02.1]

    3 Privacy
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    Privacy. Concealing identity. Encryption. Personal communication. Communication in aid of criminal acts. State interception. State assertion of authority.
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • net.wars: Chapters 4-5.
  • loader: Chapter 1-2, 10-11.
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    October 19    		 WEDNESDAY
    October 21    		 FRIDAY
    October 23
    . Key source. Current.
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    7 Oct    		 Electronic Privacy Information Center
    1 Marketing vs. Privacy US-Japan agreement.
    2 EFF critique [16 September 1998] of modification in US cryptography export policy, which "fails to address the real issue: privacy."
    3 Unfortunately, this is not on line. Philip R. Zimmermann, "Cryptography for the Internet," Scientific American, October 1998, pp.110-115.
    4 RSA Data Security, a prime vendor of encryption products.
    5 PGP [Pretty Good Privacy], Philip Zimmermann's encryption product, is now merged with Network Associates.
    6 Philip Zimmermann's biographic page [with photo].
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    1 The Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC)call statement [15 September 1998] calling for removal of encryption from controls of the Wassenaar Arangement, under which it is treated as a weapon.
    2 Encryption is for sale abroad. [Note 3.4]
    3 This 25 September 1998 New York Times article asks "Can a Web Link Break Copyright Laws?" And we'll observe whether, or how long, the Times keeps up links to articles like this!
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    1 US extends wiretap deadline [CALEA] to 30 June 2000.
    2 Peter Wayner article "Technology That Tracks Cell Phones Draws Fire", The New York Times 23 February 1998. [Registered students only.]
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    17 Oct    		 Reuter's Aaron Pressman: "FCC to Propose Resolving Digital Wiretap Debate". 16 October 1998.
    4 John Markoff article "A Call for Digital Surveillance Is Delayed", in The New York Times 14 September 1998. [Registered students only.]
    5 Links to FCC Order, Comment, &c. on delay of CALEA to 2000.

    4 Security of the Net
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    Internet security. Attacks. Preventions. Responses. Deterrents. State authority. Can the Net ever be safe from attack?
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • net.wars: Chs 10-11.
  • distance: Chapter 7.
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    October 26    		 WEDNESDAY
    October 28    		 FRIDAY
    October 30
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    1 Unfortunately not on line, this is a vivid, concise [composite] account of a hacking episode: Carolyn P. Meinel, "How Hackers Break In . . . and How They Are Caught," Scientific American, October 1998, pp.98-105.
    2 . . . and in the same issue, under title "How Computer Security Works," descriptions of firewalls [William Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin], digital certificates [Warwick Ford], and 'The Java Sandbox' [James Gosling], pp. 106-109.
    3 Lecture Note on Crashes? [Note.04.1]
    4 Look ahead to Week 6, which focuses not on security of the Net itself, but on how Net failure or abuse could have harmful effects on society and "critical infrastructure."
    5 In a press release on its acquisition of Trusted Information Systems, Network Associates explains its suite of anti-viral and other security products [including corporate key escrow].
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    1 "ESTABLISHING A COMPUTER SECURITY INCIDENT RESPONSE CAPABILITY," COMPUTER SYSTEMS LABORATORY BULLETIN. Advising users on computer systems technology. February 1992.
    2 Computer Security Incident Response and Computer Emergency Response Teams. [See next.]
    3 To see how emergency response is addressed in Germany, check out The DFN-CERT Project: the Computer Emergency Response Team for the German Research Network DFN and its services.
    4 Campus Computer Incident Response Team "Strawman" of the University of Wisconsin.
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    17 Oct    		 CERT/CC at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. To "coordinate communication among experts during security emergencies . . ."
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    17 Oct    		 FIRST list of CERTs worldwide.
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    17 Oct    		 The text of NWG RFC 2350, June 1998, "Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response." Strongly recommended.
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    1 Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
    2 Example of a vendor--Global Networking and Computing, Inc.--providing commercial computer security services. As a service, they also maintain a page on firewalls.
    3 Internet Firewalls FAQ, maintained by Marcus J. Ranum and Matt Curtin.

    5 Secure Commerce?
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    Commercial transactions. Scams. Frauds. Secure payments. Digital signatures. Commercial tie-ins. Advertising. Spam: is there no answer to spam? Commerce: will money shape the Web to serve profit? Anti-trust. US v. Microsoft.
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • net.wars: Ch 12
  • distance: Chapters 5-6, 8.
  • electronic: Chapter 4.
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    November 2    		 WEDNESDAY
    November 4    		 FRIDAY
    November 6
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    1 US Encryption Standards. [Note 05.4].
    2 The NIST Advanced Encryption Standard and the several candidate algorithms.
    3 The firm Tristrata Security claims to have developed a system "based on the only theoretically unbreakable encryption - the Vernam Cipher." Their "self-escrowed Key Management Infrastructure (KMI)" meets US Government conditions for export.
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    7 Nov    		 US DoJ filing, the charge against MicroSoft in US v. MicroSoft.
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    7 Nov    		 MicroSoft filing in response to the US DoJ filing in US v. MicroSoft.
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    1 US v. MicroSoft [Note 05.1]
    2 TechWeb coverage of the MicroSoft suit.
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    7 Nov    		 Selections from the US Code, Title 15, Chapter 1. §§ 1, 2, 13 and 14, bearing on monopoly and actions in restraint of trade. [Note 05.6.]
    4 Note many other items on the MicroSoft suit in Week 1.
    5 Amy Harmon, "For Sale: Free Operating System" on Red Hat Linux and open source software. The New York Times, 28 September 1998.
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    7 Nov    		 A page of postings and comment by Eric S. Raymond on MicroSoft intentions [the ‘Halloween memos’], including an annotated internal MicroSoft memo on open-source software and a second [annotated] internal MicroSoft memo on Linux.
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    7 Nov    		 Tim O’Reilly’s comment on MicroSoft’s disposition toward open-source software.
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    1 On the Murkowski-Torricelli legislative approach to SPAM [Note 05.2].
    2 EFF letter to Governor Pete Wilson [9 September 1998] [California] calling for a veto of the California anti-SPAM bill [AB 1629].
    3 Sendmail, Inc.'s anti-SPAM measures: Can smart programs and procedures halt spam? [Note 05.3]
    4 Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, which supports HR 1748 [below].
    5 Excerpts from Bill Mills' letter "Free-Speech Rights a Bogus Spam Issue", in the San Jose Mercury News, 13 September 1998. [Registered students only]. [Note 5.5]
    6 HR 1748, the "Netizens' Protection Act".
    7 Jeri Clausing, "House Backs Away From Regulating Spam", The New York Times, 28 September 1998.

    6 Security of Society
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    Infrastructure vulnerabilities. Banking transactions. Power transmission. Air traffic. Databases. Internet as instrument of war. Communication in aid of criminal acts. State interception. State assertion of authority.
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • Loader: Chapter 13.
    • MONDAY
    November 9    		 WEDNESDAY
    November 11    		 FRIDAY
    November 13
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    1 Executive Order 13010 [15 July 1996] establishing the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure.
    2 President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
    3 This page offers options for downloading the Report of the PCCIP.
    4 Summary of the Report of the PCCIP.
    5 The full text of the Report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection [in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0].
    6 In May 1998, following the report of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, President Clinton created the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office [CIAO].
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    1 On child molestation. [Note 06.1]
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    30 Nov    		 Text of the Child Online Protection Act [October 1998], as posted by EPIC.
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    30 Nov    		 Text of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, as posted by the Federal Trade Commission. [pdf format]
    4 Nathaniel Nash, in The New York Times [15 January 1996], "How Bavarian Proscutors Forced Compuserve's Hand on Censorship," notes the legal precedent of laws against Nazi propaganda.
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    1 Erik Eckholm, The New York Times [31 December 1997], "China Cracks Down on Dissent in Cyberspace."
    2 Matt Richtel, The New York Times [1 July 1998], "China Embraces the Internet--But Not as a Forum for Dissent."
    3 RAND Research Review, Fall 1995, v 19 n 2, issue title: Information War and Cyberspace Security. The RAND Corporation.
    4 Roger C. Molander, Andrew S. Riddile, and Peter A. Wilson, Strategic Information Warfare: A New Face of War RAND Corporation, 1996. [in pdf format]
    5 Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Information Warfare -- Defense (IW-D) November 1996. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Technology.
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    6 Oct    		 Excerpts of US DoD doctrinal statements on Information Warfare. [Note 06.2]
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    6 Oct    		 Reuters article by Neil Winton [6 October 1999] on Y2K and Cyberwar [Registered students only]. [Note 6.3] .

    7 Property Rights?
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    Intellectual property rights: software, music, graphics, text. Illich thresholds. State authority. Enforcement. A ‘free public library’? or copyrighting history?
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • net.wars: Ch 6.
  • loader: Chapters 3-6.
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    November 16    		 WEDNESDAY
    November 18     		FRIDAY
    November 20
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    1 Digital Future Coalition, an advocacy organization.
    2 Testimony of Professor Peter Jaszi, on behalf of the Digital Future Coalition, before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 10 September 1998. [And see below.]
    3 Jaszi Testimony [above] with added highlighting. [Note 07.2].
    4 WIPO Copyright Treaty [text].
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    19 Nov    		 Stanford University's fair use site, with links to statutes, texts and sites on fair use under copyright.
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    19 Nov    		 Stanford University Provost Condaleeza Rice's summary of fair use, with special reference to University classes.
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    1 Floyd E. Bloom, "The Rightness of Copyright," Science Editorial, 4 September 1998, p. 1451. [Registered students only].
    2 Bachrach et al., "Who Should Own Scientific Papers?". This proposal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science Working Group on the "Transition From Paper" was published in Science, 4 September 1998. [Registered students only].
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    19 Nov    		 Atlantic Monthly Roundtable [29 September] Round Three on "What is at stake in the battle over intellectual property in the information age?, with contributions by Charles C. Mann, John Perry Barlow, Lawrence Lessig, and Mark Stefik.
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    1 World Intellectual Property Organization
    2 Texts of WIPO-administered treaties.
    3 WIPO Standing Committee on Information Technologies [SCIT]
    4 WIPO SCIT First Plenary, Geneva, 22-26 June 1998 [pdf document] Details on tasks, process, and methods of work.

    8 Free Speech?
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    Free speech. Pornography. Filtering. Copyright law. State censorship (China, Germany). Do duties rightly fall on Internet Service Providers?
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • net.wars: Chapters 7, 9.
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    November 23    		 WEDNESDAY
    November 25
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    1 Janelle Brown article on free speech & legislation in Congress which, she argues, carry many of the same consequences as the Communications Decency Act.
    2 Electronic Privacy Information Center
    3 Internet Free Expression Alliance
    4 HR 3783. Child Online Protection Act [Oxley bill].
    5 S 1482. [Coats amendment].
    6 Internet Free Expression Alliance Statement for the Record on Legislative Proposals to Protect Children from Inappropriate Materials on the Internet [11 September 1998], on bills termed by critics CDA II (Computer Decency Act II).
    7 Center for Democracy and Technology. Constitutional analysis of HR 3783 [the Oxley bill].
    8 Center for Democracy and Technology report: "Regardless Of Frontiers: Protecting The Human Right To Freedom Of Expression On The Global Internet." [15 September 1998]
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    30 Nov    		 Text of the Child Online Protection Act [October 1998], as posted by EPIC.
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    30 Nov    		 Text of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, as posted by the Federal Trade Commission. [pdf format]
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    1 Peacefire. "We are a teen run organization which is against censorship of youth on the internet. Our concerns range from self-rating internet systems, to legislation, to internet filtering products."
    2 NetNanny, a commercial filtering product.
    3 Cybersitter, another commercial product, with filters not only for "sexually oriented" sites but also "radical activities."
    4 A TechWeb despatch [29 September 1998] on British filtering plans. [See next entry!]
    5 Report titled Converging Technologies: The Consequences For The New Knowledge-Driven Economy, compiled by the Future Unit of Britain's Department of Trade and Industry.
    6 Courtesy of the New York Times site, you can access Human Rights Watch, May 1996, v 8 n 2: Silencing the Net: The Threat to Freedom of Expression On-line, prepared by Worldwide, Internet Restrictions are Growing."
    1 On copyright law, testimony of Professor Peter Jaszi, on behalf of the Digital Future Coalition, before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 10 September 1998. [And see below.]
    2 Jaszi Testimony [above] With Added Comments

    9 Taxation? Regulation?
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    Taxation. Regulation. Jurisdiction. Courts. International agreements. Import-export of digital files?
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • Loader: Chapters 7-9, 12.
    • MONDAY
    November 30    		 WEDNESDAY
    December 2    		 FRIDAY
    December 4
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    1 "Why is Taxation an Issue?" [Note 09.1]
    2 James Edward Maule, Lisa M. Starczewski, with technical assistance from Christopher Connolly: State Taxation of Internet Transactions, an electronically interactive Web class by The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the Delaware Bar Association Tax Section. 1996.
    3 Bob Cohen, "State Tax, the Internet, and Electronic Commerce," Information Technology Association of America, 14 June 1996.
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    29 Nov    		 Jeri Clausing, "Internet Commerce Study Stresses Self-Regulation," The New York Times, 30 November 1998, sets the context for anticipated release of White House report on electronic commerce.
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    1 GFOA Fact Sheet: Internet Taxation. Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) opposes legislation that fails to preserve the right of state and local governments to enact and administer their own tax laws without intervention from or preemption by federal authorities.
    2 US Congressman Christopher Cox (R-California) maintains a Internet Tax Freedom Home Page celebrating his proposal for "keeping Internet access tax-free, stopping governments from imposing special or discriminatory taxes on the 'Net, and keeping foreign tariffs off of Internet commerce."
    12 A major White House policy document Framework for Global Electronic Commerce [1 July 1998].
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    1 Bruno Giussani, in The New York Times [17 June 1997, reports that "Germany, Advancing Communications Law, Seeks to Give Internet a Legal Framework." The full text [in English] of the act is at http://www.iid.de/rahmen/iukdge.html.
    2 Alan Cowell, in The New York Times [29 May 1998], reports "Ex-Compuserve Head Sentenced in Germany," the bizarre outcome of holding an ISP responsible for pornography posted by subscribers.

    10 Design?
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    Political design questions. Universal email? Conduct transactions with the state [queries, tax payments, voting, social security, census] by email? [See below] Are the Net and the State compatible? Should there be Web access to all state documents?
    Reading from Assigned Books:
  • distance: Chapters 9-10.
  • electronic: Chapters 5-11.
    • MONDAY
    December 7    		 WEDNESDAY
    December 9    		 FRIDAY
    December 11
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    1 The Internet Archive. This group undertakes to collect and store public information on the Web, some of it politically relevant.
    2 Web Archive 96: the 1996 US Presidential Election materials on the Internet. This project of The Internet Archive was undertaken in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution.
    3 Internet Multicasting Service pries data from the US government. [Note 10.1]
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    1 A RAND Corporation study: UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO E-MAIL: Feasbility and Societal Implications. Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, Bridger M. Mitchell with Christopher Kedzie, Brent Keltner, Constantijn Panis, Joel Pliskin, Padmanabhan Srinagesh. 1995.
    2 Reading list for the course 450CI Community Information Systems, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. [3 May 1997]
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    1 Joseph Alper, "Digital Libraries:" Assembling the World's Biggest Library on Your Desktop," Science, 18 September 1998]. [Registered students only.]
    2 The 21st Century Project [Gary Chapman] (affiliated with the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas) reflects its strong interests in community networking, computers in schools, and public policy.

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