Law And Internet Cultures: Kathy Bowrey: 9780521600484: Book: History: eCampus.com

This book is about the Internet and the technological and cultural baggage that accompanies it and affects its regulation. It considers the ways decisions about Internet technologies are made; ideas behind global trade and innovation; power of engineers and programmers; influence of multinationals; and questions about global marketing and consumer choice. Although the volume draws upon current debates from globalization, communications and socio-legal theory, it will be comprehensible to a general audience interested in issues associated with technology and innovation.

List of illustrations and tables

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Acknowledgements

Defining internet law

(22)

There is more to standards than functionality

(5)

The other kinds of laws

(4)

Technical practices intersecting with national and international laws

(2)

Connecting technologies, laws, communities and cultures

(1)

Internet cultures

(2)

Law and internet cultures

(7)

Defining internet cultures

(24)

Mapping global communities

(3)

Mapping Mandeville's Travels

(4)

The dot com bubble: the ugly face of internet space and time?

(10)

`Pets.com because pets don't drive'

(2)

It's possible that I am (or you are) in the Matrix right now

(4)

Universal standards and the end of the universe: the IETF, global governance and patents

(34)

Questions of responsibility

(7)

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

(4)

Rough consensus and the power of ideas

(10)

Responsible patenting?

(3)

Pragmatics of the IETF universe

(5)

The sky is falling?

(3)

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds

(20)

What's in a name? What is open source?

(5)

What country are we at war with? Who are `we'?

(5)

`Doubleplusgood' is in the detail

(1)

Language, trust, community and law

(4)

Who destroys the past controls the future

(2)

Newoldspeak: private power, public good

(2)

In a world without fences who needs Gates?

101

(36)

It's official: everybody hates Microsoft

102

(3)

The information future is here and here again

105

(3)

Law as cyborg

108

(3)

What the critics claim

111

(2)

So what enabled Microsoft's rise to success?

113

(2)

How economists debate technology choices: network effects, path dependence and lock-in

115

(1)

Judge Jackson's findings

116

(4)

The District Circuit appeal

120

(2)

Naturalising ideological agendas: a `technologically dynamic market'

122

(4)

Fear and trembling in Silicon Valley

126

(2)

Why the legal resolution doesn't allay anxieties

128

(1)

Moving the village

129

(8)

Telling tales: digital piracy and the law

137

(34)

Peer-to-peer: anarchy versus oligarchy?

144

(5)

Moral panics and copyright law

149

(2)

Napster, Grokster and more

151

(4)

Standing before the law

155

(1)

Technology marketing

156

(2)

Don't steal music

158

(6)

The digital commons movement

164

(4)

Legal signs, fads and fashions

168

(3)

Participate/comply/resist

171

(30)

Inhuman flows

176

(3)

Participation and the new citizenship

179

(2)

WSIS: what to expect?

181

(5)

Australia--US Free Trade Agreement

186

(2)

Globalised law-making

188

(2)

Compliance with cyberlaw activism

190

(4)

`Be Alert, But Not Alarmed'

194

(3)

Resistance

197

(2)

Reconciling law and internet culture

199

(2)

Notes

201

(24)

Bibliography

225

(12)

Index

237




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