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This document discusses regulation of social media platforms like Facebook. It notes there is an ethical dilemma around social media existing as a public domain controlled by private companies through contextual rules and architecture. It argues that the law often fails to properly regulate digital spaces due to a misunderstanding of technology and an overreliance on contracts. The document calls for a new approach to regulation to address this imbalance of control between public and private interests in the digital world.

Regulation by Facebook

Mathias Klang @klang67

Only technology
(spot the ethical dilemma?)

Control in
digital world
Law

Contextual &
programmed social
rules

Architecture
Control in
analogue world

Mathias Klang
klang@ituniv.se or @klang67
www.digital-rights.net

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This document discusses the future of ebooks and digital publishing. It explores different perspectives on copyright and piracy for digital content. The document presents three scenarios about pirating digital copies of physical books, removing DRM from digital books, and downloading books that are not owned. It also discusses whether piracy could become legitimized over time as technologies change, and questions whether ebooks may follow a different path than music with a "napster moment".

Universities, Copyright, Open Access, LicensingMathias Klang

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This document discusses the history and issues around copyright and sharing research. It notes that technology has changed how information is created and shared, challenging existing copyright models. The document reviews the origins of copyright in the Statute of Anne from 1710, and how digital technologies like the internet further blurred lines around ownership and copying. It argues that ideas like open access have been empirically proven to work through projects like Wikipedia and Linux, though property-based views of information still dominate. The document suggests researchers should consider openly licensing their work to share knowledge as widely as possible.

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eBook piracy - Waiting for anapster momentMathias Klang

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Universities, Copyright, Open Access, LicensingMathias Klang

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