Tracy Mitrano, Director
The University Computer Policy and Law Program's (UCPL) mission is to further information technologies ethics education. Typically, UCPL sponsors three or four speakers a semester for both small workshops and university lectures on topics such as digital copyright and libraries, Internet privacy and security, disability access technologies, logging and monitoring of network flow data, compliance strategies with relevant laws and campus IT policies and policy development. Complicated legal and policy issues require the expression of a variety of voices, perspectives and opinions. UCPL respects this diversity of opinion and desires to encourage campus community discussion and debate on these topics.
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Bits Are Not Atoms: Why Counting Copies Is No Longer Right
Steve Worona, Director of Policy and Networking Programs, EDUCAUSE
June 19, 2008, 4:00-6:00 P.M. - G10 Biotech
From sheet music to piano rolls to LP's to CD's, music has been distributed as tangible artifacts. As "things" that you can see, touch, mark, and move from place to place. Things that you can count. And so it's been natural to monetize intellectual property by counting these things, by counting copies. But in the digital world of the Internet and magnetic storage, we're dealing with bits, not with atoms, and bits are not just smaller atoms. In this talk, we'll explore how the laws of physics undercut traditional business models for intellectual property and how legislation and public policy are struggling to cope with this new reality.