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56Overblocking autonomy: The case of mandatory library filtering softwareContinental Philosophy Review 42 (1): 81-100. 2009.In U.S. v. American Library Association (2003), the Supreme Court upheld the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which mandated that libraries receiving federal funding for public Internet access install content-filtering programs on computers which provide that access. These programs analyze incoming content, and block the receipt of objectionable material, in particular pornography. Thus, patrons at public libraries are protected from unintentionally (or intentionally) accessing objectionabl…Read more
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25Digital copyright and the possibility of pure lawQui Parle 14 21-47. 2003.This paper attempts a theoretical discussion of effects on the legal regime of copyright induced by the change from material to digital media. Specifically, a fundamental question remains unanswered: what is the relationship between an object and a copy? A conceptually clear answer to this question has been unnecessary because it has always been possible to provide an ad hoc answer through visual inspection of an object. Authorized mechanical reproductions – authorized copies – look similar to o…Read more
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47Coding the Dictatorship of ‘the They:’ A Phenomenological Critique of Digital Rights ManagementIn J. Jeremy Wisnewski Mark Sanders (ed.), Ethics and Phenomenology, Lexington Books. forthcoming.This paper uses Heidegger’s discussion of artifacts in Being and Time to motivate a phenomenological critique of Digital Rights Management regimes such as the one that allows DVDs to require one to watch commercials and copyright notices. In the first section, I briefly sketch traditional ethical approaches to intellectual property and indicate the gap that a phenomenological approach can fill. In section 2, following Heidegger’s discussion in Being and Time, I analyze DRM technologies as exempl…Read more
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Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Technology Ethics |
Thomas Hobbes |
Baruch Spinoza |
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