Great law lecture on how the DMCA changed the meaning of "unauthorized access" to copyrighted works

Salim sez, "A treat for all copyfighters from U-Channel... a lecture by copyright lawyer Julie E. Cohen on how the law is evolving ten years after the DMCA. From the site"

In recent years, the law has been asked to respond to a variety of disputes involving accessibility of information and related technical standards and practices. These disputes cover the waterfront from the design of proprietary media players to network neutrality to privacy protection for search queries. So far, the law has been unable to generate compelling discourses and principles for evaluating them.

Prof. Cohen offers another way of thinking about issues of accessibility and unauthorized access. The reference point for this exercise is not be innovation, competition or expressive freedom, but rather the concept of "everyday practice," a term intended to encompass all of the ways in which situated users experience and interact with networked information technologies and the purposes for which they do so.

The Changing Meaning of `Unauthorized Access` MP3 Link

(Thanks, Salim!)

[#1 posted by PaulR, June 8, 2009 3:19 AM]

Y'know, some of the links you'all provide require a little reading/listening/watching/digestion before intelligently commenting - maybe a day or two later.

It would be super nifty if there was a "sort articles by recent comments" option - so that topics that don't elicit immediate comment can still rise to the top of people's attention.

(I'll be stuck waiting for the Confederation Bridge to open up after the Tour de PEI today, so I'll have time to listen to Prof. Cohen's talk. Thanks!)

[#2 posted by Anonymous, June 8, 2009 4:35 PM]

paulr:

good idea - also maybe some kind of ordering by the sum of exponentially decaying weight for each comment - so a single comment does not push a thread to the top if there are active discussions with many comments 'recently'.