Notes from Global Flow of Info conference

David sez, "Yale Law School is hosting an amazing conference this weekend on the "Global Flow of Information" that will vascillate wildly between insanely theoretical and the benignly abstract. James Grimmelmann of LawMeme is leading the liveblogging of this extravaganza, which includes talks by Yochai Benkler, Siva Vaidhyanathan and Jamie Love. From today's keynote conversation between Benkler and U.S. Constitutional scholar Robert Post:"

Robert Post:

"To those who have, shall be given" is still true.
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*name-drops Gadamer*

copyright turns the action of speaking into information, a thing.

so don't think of information as the agent. it doesn't flow, it doesn't do anything. people do these things. we care about people, not things.

Yochai Benkler

(Out comes the laptop. the first amendment scholar spoke. now the cyberlaw scholar will show us some powerpoint*

(JG: He speaks in huge long sentences. this is going to be exciting, by which I mean it's going to be tough. "It's a very sophisticated audience, I'll go quickly." Uh-oh.)

Information isn't a thing, it's a flow! Packaged goods give away to flows moving in the network. Instead of going to an almanac, you make a Google query. That's away from a thing and towards a process.

Link (Thanks, David!)