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Podcast Description
Tech Policy Weekly from the Technology Liberation Front is a weekly discussion about technology policy from techliberation.com's learned band of contributors. It features some of the brightest and most provocative minds in the field of technology public policy commenting on the regulation of media, the internet, privacy, intellectual property, and all things tech.
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Michael Burstein on information exchange and IP law | Michael Burstein, assistant professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, discusses his paper entitled, Exchanging Information Without Intellectual Property. Burstein begins by discussing theories behind IP law and why it exists. According to | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jim Harper & Ryan Radia on cybersecurity legislation | Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, and Ryan Radia, associate director of technology studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discuss Congress's recent interest in cybersecurity. Harper and Radia begin by disc | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jennifer Shkabatur on transparency reform | Jennifer Shkabatur, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard University, discusses her new paper, "Transparency With(out) Accountability: The Effects of the Internet on the Administrative State. Shkabatur begins by discussing the focus | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Naomi Cahn on the digital afterlife | Naomi Cahn, John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University, discusses her new paper entitled, "Postmortem Life Online." Cahn first discusses what could happen to online accounts like Facebook once a person dies. According to C | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spencer Weber Waller on Facebook and antitrust | Spencer Weber Waller, Professor and Director at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, discusses his new paper entitled, Antitrust and Social Networking. The discussion centers on the likelihood of Faceboo | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Lashinsky on how Apple works | Adam Lashinsky, author and editor-at-large for Fortune, discusses his new book, Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works. Lashinsky begins by discussing Apple's obsession with secrecy to the point that employees do no | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christina Mulligan on patent scalability | Christina Mulligan, Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, discusses Her new paper, co-authored with Tim Lee, entitled, Scaling the Patent System. Mulligan begins by describing the policy behind patents: to give temporary | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bruce Schneier on the importance of trust in society | Bruce Schneier, internationally renowned security expert and author, discusses his new book entitled, "Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs To Thrive." Schneier starts the discussion by looking at society and trust, and explains wh | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jason Mazzone on copyright and the abuse of IP law | Jason Mazzone, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, discusses his new book, Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law. Copyfruad, according to Mazzone, occurs when intellectual property law is used in an abusive or overreaching manner. M | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gabriella Coleman on Anonymous and LulzSec | Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies at McGill University, discusses hacktivist group, Anonymous. Coleman begins with an overview of An | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca MacKinnon on Internet freedom | Rebecca MacKinnon, a former CNN correspondent and now Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, discusses her new book entitled, "Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom." MacKinnon begins by discussing "Net Freedom," w | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clay Johnson on information consumption | Clay Johnson, co-founder of Blue State Digital and former director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, discusses his new book, The Information Diet. According to Johnson, America's diet of mass-produced unhealthy food has resulted in an obesity | 2/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Weinberger on knowledge | David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for the Internet & Society and Co-Director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School, discusses his new book entitled, "Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now Th | 2/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Coulton on music piracy | Jonathan Coulton, a musician, singer-songwriter, and geek icon, who releases his music under a Non-Commercial Creative Commons License, discusses his thoughts on piracy from an artist's point of view. Coulton talks about quitting his day job so he could | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Catherine Tucker on online advertising and antitrust | Catherine Tucker, Douglas Drane Career Development Professor in IT and Management, and Assistant Professor of Marketing at MIT's Sloan School of Management, discusses her paper with Avi Goldfarb in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics entitled, | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reuben Grinberg on the legality of Bitcoin | Reuben Grinberg, a recent Yale Law School graduate now in private practice in New York City, discusses his paper, published in the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal entitled, Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency. Grinberg first | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Weinberg on 3D printing | Michael Weinberg, staff attorney with Public Knowledge, discusses his white paper entitled, It Will Be Awesome If They Don't Screw This Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology. The discussion begins | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andrew McAfee on digital innovation, employment and productivity | Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business, discusses his new book, co-authored with Erik Brynjolfsson, entitled, "Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Froomkin on the future of anonymity | Michael Froomkin, the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami, discusses his new paper prepared for the Oxford Internet Institute entitled, Lessons Learned Too Well. Froomkin begins by talking ab | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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danah boyd on how parents help kids lie to get on Facebook | danah boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, and Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, discusses her recent article in First Monday with Ester Hargitai, Jason Schultz, and John Palfrey. It's entitled, "W | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joseph Flatley on the new breed of survivalists | Joseph Flatley, Features Editor with The Verge, discusses his recent article entitled, "Condo at the End of the World." Flatley first gives an overview of The Verge, a new website dedicated to in-depth reporting usually seen in traditional media such as n | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laura Heymann on reputation | Laura Heymann, Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, discusses her recent article in the Boston College Law Review entitled, The Law of Reputation and the Interest of the Audience. Heymann proposes viewing the concept of reputation as someth | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Johnny Ryan on the history of the Internet and its future | Johnny Ryan, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International and European Affairs, discusses his recent book, "A History of the Internet and the Digital Future." The book is a comprehensive overview of the Internet and where it came from. Ryan discuss | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alisdair Gillespie on restricting access to the Internet | Alisdair Gillespie, Professor of Criminal Law and Justice at De Montfort University in Leicester UK, discusses his new paper in the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Restricting Access to the Internet by Sex Offenders. Gillespie dis | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Thierer on Internet sales tax | Adam Thierer, a Senior Research Fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center, discusses his new paper, co-authored with Veronique de Rugy, The Internet, Sales Tax, and Tax Competition. With several states in the midst of budget crunche | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Simon Chesterman on electronic intelligence surveillance | Simon Chesterman, Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, and Global Professor and Director of the NYU School of Law Singapore Programme, discusses his new book, One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defe | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Robinson on rogue websites and domain seizures | David Robinson, a fellow at the Information and Society Project at Yale Law School, discusses his new paper, Following the Money: A Better Way Forward on the PROTECT IP Act. The bill, now being considered by Congress, targets "rouge" websites. Robinson di | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Derek Bambauer on censorship | Derek Bambauer, associate professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, discusses his forthcoming University of Chicago Law Review article entitled Orwell's Armchair. In the paper, Bambuer writes that America has begun to censor the Internet, and he distinguis | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sonia Arrison on technology and longevity | Sonia Arrison, writer, futurist, and senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses her new book entitled 100+, How the Coming of Age of Longevity Will Change Everything from Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith. The process of aging, | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Annemarie Bridy on scaling copyright enforcement | Annemarie Bridy, professor of law at the University of Idaho, and visiting associate professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses her new paper, "Is Online Copyright Enforcement Scalable?" In it she looks at the advent of peer-to-peer (P2P) | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Lee on patent reform | Timothy B. Lee, adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, a contributor to Ars Technica, and blogger at Forbes.com, discusses the recent patent wars and the prospects for reform. Over the last two decades, large software companies like Microsoft and Apple | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Nelson on digital preservation | Michael Nelson, Associate Professor at Old Dominion University, developed, along with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Memento," a technical framework aimed at better integrating the current and the past web. In the past, archiving hist | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gerald Faulhaber on the economics of net neutrality | Gerald Faulhaber, Professor Emeritus at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Law School, discusses his new paper in Communications & Convergence Review entitled Economics of Net Neutrality: A Review. Faulhaber delves into the | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Thierer on children’s privacy online | Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in the Technology Policy Program, discusses his new paper, Kids, Privacy, Free Speech & the Internet: Finding the Right Balance. For kids, using the Internet has be | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ryan Calo on personal robots | Ryan Calo, a scholar at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, discusses his new article in the Maryland Law Review entitled "Open Robotics." Robots are frequently used in war, manufacturing, warehouse management, and even in surgery. Now, personal r | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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David Brin on transparency and accountability | David Brin, a physicist and Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction writer, wrote his prescient 1997 nonfiction book, The Transparent Society, which won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. He's written a new essay revisi | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kembrew McLeod on copyright and hip-hop sampling | Kembrew McLeod, independent filmmaker and Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, discusses his new documentary with Benjamin Franzen called Copyright Criminals. Digital music sampling is used throughout several genres of | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Woodrow Hartzog on clickwrap and browsewrap agreements | Woodrow Hartzog, Assistant Professor at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law, and a Scholar at the Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, discusses his new paper in Communications Law and Policy entitled, The New Price To Play: Are Passiv | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hal Singer on wireless competition | Hal Singer, managing director at Navigant Economics and adjunct professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, discusses his new paper on wireless competition, co-written by Gerry Faulhaver of the University of Pennsylvania, and Bob H | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tim Harford on adapting and prospering in a complex world | Tim Harford, economist and senior columnist for the Financial Times, discusses his new book, Adapt: Why Success Starts With Failure. He argues that people and organizations have a poor record of getting things right the first time; therefore, the evoluti | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Daniel Solove on the tradeoff between privacy and security | Daniel Solove, professor at the George Washington University Law School, discusses his new book Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security. He suggests that developments in technology do not create a mutually exclusive relationship b | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pamela Samuelson on codifying the Google Books settlement | Pamela Samuelson, the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School, discusses her new article in the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts entitled, Legislative Alternatives to the Google Book Settlement. Samuelson discusses | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ronald Rychlak on online gambling laws | Ronald Rychlak, Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the University of Mississippi School of Law, discusses his new article in the Mississipi Law Journal entitled, The Legal Answer to Cyber-Gambling. Rychlak brief | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steven Levy on how Google works | Steven Levy, a columnist for Wired and author of the tech classic Hackers, among many other books, discusses his latest book, In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. Levy talks about Googliness, the attribute of silliness and dedicati | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Larry Downes on IP enforcement online | Larry Downes, who writes for CNet, blogs at Forbes.com and the Technology Liberation Front, and is the author of several books, including most recently, The Laws of Disruption, discusses enforcement of intellectual property rights online. Downes talks abo | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Konstantinos Stylianou on technological determinism and privacy | Konstantinos Stylianou, a former Fulbright Scholar now working on a PhD in law at Penn Law School, and author of the provocative new essay, “Hasta La Vista Privacy, or How Technology Terminated Privacy,” discusses technological determinism and privacy | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Micah Sifry on government transparency and WikiLeaks | Micah Sifry, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, editor of techPresident.com, and author of the new book, Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency, discusses government transparency. Sifry talks about the various purposes of government transparency, | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joseph Menn on the hunt for internet crime lords | Joseph Menn, a Financial Times technology reporter and the author of Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down The Internet, discusses cyber crime. Menn says that one of the main challenges of cybersecurity is that the int | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julian Sanchez on electronic surveillance | Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institue who focuses on issues related to technology, privacy, and civil liberties, discusses electronic communications. Sanchez talks about changes in surveillance of electronic communications since 9/11, hig | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 49 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
outstanding
This is an outstanding podcast that you should not miss if you're interested in telecommunications and technology policy issues. The moderators interview experts in the vast array of technology issues that are currently being debated in the media and policy communities. The podcast is both informative to the tech-savvy and accessible by the lay person. Highly recommended!
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If you are interested in technology and contemporary thought, this is a great source for both.
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