iLaw 2006. Documentos, presentaciones y materiales del evento

Access to the Internet (inglés)

By Yochai Benkler, Alex Marino and Sarah Ma. Using the Internet depends, in the first instance, on access to the network. The initial emergence of “the Internet” in the early 1990s, from the increasing connectivity of a series of university and government networks alongside private services like America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe, occurred almost entirely across slow dial-up modem connections...

Alternatives to Intellectual Property (inglés)

By Jonathan Zittrain, Isaac Lidsky, Dotan Oliar and Bekhzod Abdurazzakov. Very few observers of the Internet believe that it can be regulated sensibly through the staples of traditional Intellectual Property law, whether because they doubt its efficacy/enforceability, or because they believe it's the wrong model for governing the sharing of creative expression. Today's Internet - still in evolution...

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment (inglés)

William W. Fisher III. Stanford University Press, August 2004).Imagine that I own a rocky promontory on the coast of Maine. A submerged reef extends from my land a half mile seaward. Mariners have trouble seeing the reef, especially at night or when it’s foggy. As a result, ships have been running aground on the reef for centuries... (documento PDF para descarga, 543 Kb)

Audio Digital: Una pequeña introducción (castellano)

Los hechos presentados derivan del trabajo “Como funcionan los discos Compactos (CD)” de Marshall Brain. http://howstuffworks.com/cd.htm. Tras entrar en el mundo del MP3, a menudo uno oye hablar de las diferencias entre grabaciones analógicas y digitales.Mp3 es un tipo de tecnología digital como su predecesor y compañero, el compact disc (CD). Precedentes de estas tecnologías...

Balanza de Conocimiento y Propiedad Intelectual en el Comercio (castellano)

INDECOPI, Serie Estudios de Investigación, mayo de 2005. El Perú no cuenta a la fecha con ningún sistema de cuentas e indicadores estadísticos que muestren la importancia y relevancia de los conocimientos y la propiedad intelectual en la economía nacional. Por muchos años nadie se ha preocupado en evaluar y elaborar una especie de cuenta específica en el tema del desarrollo de conocimientos... (Documento PDF para descarga, 863 Kb)

Business Method Patents Online (inglés)

By William Fisher, Dotan Oliar, Cyrill P. Rigamonti, Alixandra Smith, Geri Zollinger and Elliott Davis. Table of Contents: Introduction, Readings, Examples, Discussion Topics. References

Cultura libre (castellano)

Lawrence Lessig. Cómo los grandes medios usan la tecnología y las leyes para encerrar la cultura y controlar la creatividad.

Free culture (inglés)

Lawrence Lessig. How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity.

Cybercrime (inglés)

Charles R. Nesson and William Fisher. "Cybercrime" is not a rigorously defined concept. For our purposes, consider it to embrace criminal acts that can be accomplished while sitting at a computer keyboard. Such acts include gaining unauthorized access to computer files, disrupting the operation of remote computers with viruses, worms, logic bombs, Trojan horses, and denial of service attacks; distributing and creating child pornography, stealing another's identity; selling contraband, and stalking victims. Cybercrime is cheap to commit...

Las consecuencias no deseadas: Cinco años bajo la Digital Millennium Copyright Act (versión 3, castellano)

Documento elaborado por el Electronic Frontier Foundation. Traducido del inglés al castellano por Alberto Cerda Silva, Coordinador Académico del Centro de Estudios en Derecho Informático de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chile, revisada por Patrick Humphreys Neumann, abogado, y Pedro Mendizábal Simonetti, Presidente de CPSR-Perú (http://www.cpsr-peru.org).

Perú. Los Intereses Nacionales en Propiedad Intelectual y los Tratados de Libre Comercio: Marco Referencial (castellano)

INDECOPI, Documentos Institucionales, marzo de 2005. Los derechos de propiedad intelectual constituyen uno de los temas de mayor complejidad en las negociaciones comerciales, por sus efectos en el crecimiento económico y en el nivel de vida de los países y en sus posibilidades de desarrollo...

Domain Names (inglés)

By William Fisher, Dori Kornfeld, Dotan Oliar and David Abrams. The commercialization of the Internet has dramatically increased the importance and economic value of domain names. The sets of alphanumeric characters denoting Internet addresses have become a major source of cash, controversy, and case law. Catchy “dot-com” phrases are splashed across billboards, buses, and Superbowl advertisements. Companies and individuals struggle over the more attractive...

Freedom of Expression on the Internet (inglés)

By William Fisher, Yochai Benkler, Rebecca Brackley and Sarah Ma. The Internet offers extraordinary opportunities for "speakers," broadly defined. Political candidates, cultural critics, corporate gadflies -- anyone who wants to express an opinion about anything -- can make their thoughts available to a world-wide audience far more easily than has ever been possible before. A large and growing group of Internet participants have seized that opportunity...

Interconnectivity (inglés)

By William Fisher, Dequan Wang, Shel Woodruff, John Palfrey and Agnes Li. The Internet is a vast network that connects many smaller groups of linked computer networks, on and through which information is stored and transmitted. The "interconnected" character of the Internet is one of the things that makes it so popular and powerful in facilitating communication and electronic commerce. However, "interconnectivity" has also given rise to increasing legal controversy and turmoil...

Jurisdiction in Cyberspace (inglés)

By Jonathan Zittrain. At its core, jurisdiction is about the boundaries of a sovereign's exercise of its power. What are reasonable constraints on its reach, such that faraway or otherwise unconnected people and institutions can be called to account by the sovereign? Closely related are concepts of choice of law...

Peer-to-Peer Copying (inglés)

By William Fisher, Christopher Yang, Dotan Oliar and Bekhzod Abudurazzakov. Most Internet content today is "served" from a central system that takes requests from a user's "client." Typically, the user asks for access to information or other data; the requested content is then "pushed" from the central system to the user. In this model, the various visitors to a given web site do not interact. By contrast, peer-to-peer technology (commonly known as "P2P") creates conversations among individual personal computers (PCs). In this respect, P2P systems resemble an affiliate network...

Privacy (inglés)

By Charles Nesson, Alex Marino, Robert Kent. Though it brings us many benefits, the march of technology makes an encompassing surveillance network seem almost inevitable, and radically changes our expectations of privacy. We owe many of the expectations of privacy we used to enjoy to a combination of immature technology and insufficient manpower to monitor us. But these protective inefficiencies are giving way to technologies of data processing and digital surveillance that will change our beliefs about privacy. We are widely tracked by public surveillance cameras, our credit-card transactions, our passes through the fast-lanes at toll booths, and our cell phone calls to name only a few of the data points that could be assembled about our lives...

Siete recomendaciones sobre la implementación de medidas de protección tecnológica (castellano)

Las medidas de protección tecnológica en el Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA), la Ley de Derechos de Autor para el Milenio Digital (DMCA) y los recientes Tratados de Libre Comercio bilaterales (TLC). Documento elaborado por el Electronic Frontier Foundation, traducido por CPSR-Perú.

Las medidas de protección tecnológica en el TLC entre EE.UU. y Chile (castellano)

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Análisis de la implementación de las excepciones, limitaciones y disposiciones sobre medidas de protección tecnológica (MPT) y los derechos de autor en el TLC entre EE.UU y Chile.