CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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Politech reprints an anonymous, somewhat overheated essay arguing for a technology-only approach to privacy, as opposed to one based on laws. It’s easy to dismiss an essay like this just…
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TIA Discussion at Politech
Lots of postings recently over at Politech about DARPA’s Total Information Awareness program. Check it out, if you’re interested.
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AP: Parents Complain Too Much to Professors
AP reports on a supposed trend of parents complaining to professors about their kids’ education, grades, course scheduling, and so on. In eight years of teaching at Princeton, I have…
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"Fair Use" in the Media
Siva Vaidhyanathan offers data on the prevalence of the term “fair use” in the media. He counted the number of times that “copyright” and “fair use” were used in the…
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Publish in New Jersey, Get Sued in Australia
The highest court in Australia has ruled that Dow Jones can be sued in Australia for libel, even though the article in question was published on a web site in…
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Business Week: Hollywood's Love/Hate Relationship with Technology
Jane Black at Business Week describes how digital technology is changing the movie business. She reports that while one part of the movie industry is fighting tooth and nail against…
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Fair Use as Black Hole (Cont.)
In response to my earlier posting on fair use, Siva Vaidhyanathan points out one reason for the messiness of the fair use debate – different people mean different things by…
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Wilkins on Technology Policy
In 1641, John Wilkins published the very first book in English about cryptography. (It discussed many other topics as well.) The book’s title was “Mercury; or, the Secret and Swift…
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NYT Expands Fritz's Hit List
In today’s New York Times, Matt Richtel adds to Fritz’s Hit List: the Barbie Travel Train. He also interrogates a five-year-old who is about to buy this piracy tool, along…
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Fair Use: A Rhetorical Black Hole?
Yesterday’s exchange with Ernest Miller got me to thinking about why I didn’t mention fair use in my initial posting. I realized there is another reason that I hadn’t stated…