6.805J / 6.806 / STS.085 Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier, Spring 2002

Abelson, Harold; Zittrain, Jonathan

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Abelson, Harold; Zittrain, Jonathan

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Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier

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Abstract

The interaction between law, policy, and technology as they relate to the evolving controversies over control of the Internet. Topics include: intellectual property and copyright control, privacy and government surveillance, and freedom of expression and content control.

Date issued

2002-06

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36383

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society

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6.805J-Spring2002

local: 6.805J

local: 6.806

local: STS.085

local: IMSCP-MD5-4e4b2394874d3b0145d212496f59ebc6

Keywords

computer, communications, ethics, policy, technology, individual rights, societal needs, computer crime, intellectual property, software, encryption, privacy, national security, academic freedom, free speech, copyright, copyright control, copyright law, 6.805J, 6.806, STS.085, 6.805, Electronic data processing -- Moral and ethical aspects

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