Author(s): Deirdre K. Mulligan Year: 2010 Abstract: Late in 2005, Sony BMG released millions of Compact Discs containing digital rights management technologies that threatened the security of its customers’ computers […]
The Magnificence of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident
Towards a Market for Bank Safety
Author(s): Chris Jay Hoofnagle Year: 2010 Abstract: Imagine shopping for a car in 1960. Safety is important to you. How do you assess a car’s performance in surviving a crash? […]
Economic and Constitutional Influences on Copyright Law in the United States
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2000 Abstract: After U.S. accession to the Berne Convention in 1988, many scholars have expected an increasing convergence between U.S. and EU copyright law. Even though […]
Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2006 Abstract: As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection […]
The Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction Between Authorship and Invention
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2005 Abstract: This Story grows out of a study of the Supreme Court Record and other historical materials about the well-known 1880 copyright case of Baker […]
‘Clues’ for Determining Whether Business and Service Innovations are Unpatentable Abstract Ideas
Author(s): Year: 2010 Abstract: Jason SchultzUniversity of California, Berkeley – School of Law Pamela SamuelsonUniversity of California, Berkeley – School of Law The Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos […]
The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2010 Abstract: An intriguing way to view the proposed settlement of the copyright litigation over the Google Book Search (GBS) Project is as a mechanism through […]
Inferring Personal Information from Demand-Response Systems
Author(s): Deirdre K. Mulligan Year: 2010 Abstract: Current and upcoming demand-response systems provide increasingly detailed power-consumption data to utilities and a growing array of players angling to assist consumers in […]
The Past, Present and Future of Software Copyright Interoperability Rules in the European Union and United States
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2010 Abstract: The protectability (or not) of computer program interfaces, the legality of reverse engineering of program code to extract interface information and the reimplementation of […]
Managing Global Data Privacy
Author(s): Paul M. Schwartz Year: 2010 Abstract: Successive revolutions in information technology raise new challenges, risks, and opportunities for consumer privacy protection. Perhaps the most basic question is how these […]