The policy reading group meets Fridays during the semester at 12:30 in room CS 418a. Pizza is available for a fee. Each week participants read and discuss a policy paper.

To find out about upcoming meetings, join the itpolicy-reading list.

Past Events

Fall 2008

Oct. 24	FCC Office of Engineering and Technology TV White Space Phase II Test Report — Executive Summary. Oct. 2008. Unlicensed “White Space Device” Operations on the TV Band and the Myth of Harmful Interference. S. D. Meinrath, M. Calabrese. New America Foundation, Mar. 2008.
Oct. 17	S. 3325: Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008. The Patry Copyright Blog: What Does it mean to be Pro-IP?. W. Patry. Dec. 2007.
Oct. 10	RealNetworks v. DVD-CCA: Studios’ Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order. Oct. 2008. RealNetworks v. DVD-CCA: RealNetworks’ Opposition to the TRO. Oct. 2008.
Oct. 3	Order granting a new trial in Capitol Records v. Jammie Thomas Sep 2008. Order on Motions to Quash in London-Sire v. Doe Apr. 2008, pp. 19-27.
Sep. 26	The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance. P. Ohm. August 2008.

Spring 2008

May 16	Guest Speaker: Lance Venable Atlantic v Howell: Denial of the Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment. 2008.
May 9	State of New Jersey v. Shirley Reid (NJ decision that disclosure of IP addresses requires a grand jury subpoena 2008.
Apr. 25	Procedures for California’s 1% Manual Tally. J. L. Hall. 2008.
Apr. 18	Government Data Transparency for the Next Adminstration. D. Robinson, H. Yu, E. W. Felten. 2008.
Apr. 11	Barack Obama: “Technology and Innovation for a New Generation” Hillary Clinton: “Innovation Agenda” TechCrunch Tech President Primaries
Apr. 4	The Sedona Conference Commentary on ESI Evidence & Admissibility. K. F. Brady et al. eds. The Sedona Conference Commentary. March 2008.
Mar. 28	NYS Bill A09275: Third Party Internet Advertising Consumers’ Bill of Rights Act of 2008
Mar. 14	FCC’s Request for Public Comment. Jan 14, 2008. FCC’s Internet Policy Statement. Sep 23, 2005. Comcast’s comments to the FCC describing its traffic-shaping practices. Feb 12, 2008.
Feb. 29	The iPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment. A. M. Gershowitz. 2008.
Feb. 15	“Peer to Patent”: Collective Intelligence, Open Review and Patent Reform. B. S. Noveck. 20 Harv. J. L & Tech. 123, 2006. Peer to Patent site

Fall 2007

Dec. 20	Tussle in cyberspace: defining tomorrow’s internet. D. D. Clark, J. Wroclawski, K. R. Sollins, R. Braden. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. Volume 32, Issue 4, October 2002.
Dec. 14	A Brief History of American Telecommunications Regulation. T. Wu. Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History, Forthcoming. Keeping the Internet Neutral?: Tim Wu and Christopher Yoo Debate. T. Wu and C. S. Yoo. Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 06-27, 2007.
Nov. 30	Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap. J. Tehranian. Utah Law Review No. 3, Forthcoming 2007. NJ’s Election Audit Bill (S507).
Nov. 16	Legal Issues Surrounding Monitoring During Network Research. P. Ohm, D. Sicker, D. Grunwald. Proceedings of the 2007 Internet Measurement Conference.
Nov. 9	Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Aug. 2007.
Nov. 2	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants. Jason Franklin, Vern Paxson, Adrian Perrig, and Stefan Savage. CCS 2007.
Oct. 26	Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm. Y. Benkler. 112 Yale L.J. 369, 2002.
Oct. 19	Risking Communications Security: Potential Hazards of the “Protect America Act” (draft). S. Bellovin, M. Blaze, W. Diffie, S. Landau, P. G. Neumann, and J. Rexford.
Oct. 12	The Structure of Search Engine Law (draft). J. Grimmelmann. 93 Iowa L. Rev., Forthcoming 2007.
Oct. 5	Updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. O. S. Kerr. University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming 2008.
Sep. 28	“I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy. D. J. Solove.
Sep. 21	The Great Firewall of China — ConceptDoppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship. J. R. Crandall, D. Zinn, M. Byrd, E. Barr, and R. East. CCS 2007.

Spring 2007

May 4	Patents — KSR v. Teleflex decision
Apr. 27	Click fraud — The Lane’s Gifts v. Google Report
Apr. 20	The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution. P. Biddle, P. England, M. Peinado, B. Willman.
Apr. 13	The Generative Internet. J. Zittrain.
Apr. 6	Copyright’s Communications Policy. T. Wu.
Mar. 30	Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation et al. v. Cablevision Systems Corporation
Mar. 16	Viacom v. YouTube
Mar. 9	Holt E-Voting Bill (H.R. 811)