APPENDIX: OTHER (RANDOM) IDEAS
* Talmudic principle: “Zeh Neheneh v’Ze Lo Chaser” – where a second neighbor benefits from the addition to a wall, while the first neighbor loses nothing, in which case the Halachah is that the one who benefits does not have to pay.
* Wonder if there are useful metaphors to the ethics and laws applicable to the conundrums of the digital age? – “Give rights to slaves and to widows! Give rights to orphans and foreigners! Protect the rights of the poor and protect the rights of minors!” This is the accepted translation of lines of ancient Hebrew that were painted onto a clay pot about 3,000 years ago. Their author is thought to have been a trainee court official – they were instructed to write out important laws over and over again to improve their writing skills.
“German translates oldest known Hebrew”
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120606-42969.html
• Defamation is about injury to reputation. Privacy is, well, about privacy. Personality rights are about the IP rights we have in our identities. In this digital age the three are being all merged together and becoming largely redundant with one another – more confusing then helpful. Has sort of become a right to freely exploit my persona and creativity while aggressively protecting my reputation and creativity. Really? Isn’t there a problem, paradox, irony here? Where is the balancing of rights and responsibilities? Layer over that the legal differences between jurisdictions and it’s a mess….
• Analog world is vertical; digital world is flat:
1. Telecom co can’t figure out how to do a Skype call with a client. Old world is vertical.
2. CDM student gets 3 of his favorite bands in the world to respond to his query re doing music for his IOS app. New world is flat.
3. Bell buys Astral. When innovation is too much of a risk, quasi-monopoly slows the public company bleeding and protects the balance sheets for a while longer. Also perhaps explains “D. Shaw, The Rise and Fall of American Mass Media: Roles of Technology and Leadership” in that the plateauing of media instead of falling might relate to mergers & acquisitions among the eclipsing mediums – those no longer innovating. Happened to railways, then cars, now “old” media..
• Virtual violence is not violence; virtual sex is not sex. “Techdirt: Yes, Online And Offline Rules Are Different… Because Online And Offline Are Different”
• Think about it: Piracy is literally about steering something away in a new direction. Possible in a digital world. Should it be illegal? Counterfeiting is theft:
Gov’t Efforts Target Online Counterfeits Much More Than Digital Piracy bit.ly/Hxwfhj
• Millions of Americans Have Cut the TV Cord [STUDY] – on.mash.to/HPk0xE : Could this trend be happening because in psychological terms TV doesn’t give the opportunity for personal creativity and expression, while Digi-net based content does.
• In the old days fixation was communication/dissemination, or most often at least assured of communication/dissemination.
• Walled gardens should be presumptively considered as a 1). limitation on speech/expression; & as 2). breaching anti-trust/competition law principles:
Walled gardens look rosy for Facebook, Apple – and would-be censors guardian.co.uk/technology/201… (featuring much of @zittrain’s work) via @guardian
* In a world of 1’s and 0’s, how could you have anything other than copying? Everything is a copy!
* Legal metaphor about how we interact with content: Is everything becoming fan-fiction?
* Because they are on iTunes not Spotify? –
“The Beatles Are on Slow Fade Into Pop Culture Obscurity:
Thanks to iTunes deal, young music fans may never discover Abbey Road.”
http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/2012/04/20/beatles-slow-fade-pop-culture-obscurity/
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