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Week 4 – 10/2/13: “Right to CreaTE or Rights of Creation” & Prof. Greg Lastowka

Week 4 – 10/2/13: “Right to CreaTE or Rights of Creation” & Prof. Greg Lastowka

Week 4 features a wonderful talk from Greg Lastowka of Rutgers Law. Though we could see Greg’s slides in class the video-capture system cannot simultaneously access slides fed remotely and a remote video feed. So you are stuck with a second screen of me during Greg’s talk which most fortunately can simply be turned off […]

The N.S.A. & Copyright

The N.S.A. & Copyright

For the last couple of weeks there has been this odd and mostly (but not entirely) facetious thought running around in my brain… Among the Edward Snowden related revelations we know the N.S.A. has downloaded tremendous amounts of data which it is storing. Though the focus has been on location data as well as metadata, […]

Surveillance Technology in the Real World

Surveillance Technology in the Real World

Had two very recent technology interactions which surprised me and brought some issues of privacy and surveillance into sharper relief. Theory is one thing. Read popular and academic articles on the subject is another. Having what viscerally feels to be an intrusive experiences, even in an admittedly small way, stirs a whole new level of […]