[NYCInfoLaw] Reading Group at Columbia on Tuesday 7pm

[Kate Vershov]

The next NYCInfoLaw Reading Group will take place this coming week at
Columbia, in Jerome Greene Hall (435 W 116th St. at Amsterdam) Room
940 on Tuesday, October 13th at 7:00 pm, with Drinking Group to
follow.

To provide a bit of background, this reading group will focus on the
growing control that manufacturers of electronic devices retain long
after those devices have been sold to consumers. In particular, we
will examine how those controls impact technological innovation,
intellectual property rights, and your liberty. To this end we will
look at the Kindle, cell phones, and computers.

As always, food will be provided: please RSVP to
kate.vershov at gmail.com.  Note, however, that even if you don't RSVP,
you are still welcome to come (and eat).

Please take the following reading list as a suggestion -- you don't
_need_ to read anything, although at least skimming will probably help
the discussion considerably.

Readings:

Why 2024 Will Be Like Nineteen Eighty-Four
Farhad Manjoo
http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/
[On Amazon's remote deletion of 1984 from customers' Kindles; great
introduction to the topic]

Code
The Limits in Open Code Chapter
Lawrence Lessig
http://www.socialtext.net/codev2/index.cgi?the_limits_in_open_code
[Read the from section halfway down the page entitled "A Short History
of Code on the Net" to the end]

Wireless Carterfone
Tim Wu
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=962027
[Focus on Part II (pp. 7-27). This paper was instrumental in getting
Google to enter the last spectrum auction and influenced its thinking
on the Android mobile phone system]

Extra Credit

The Magnificence of the Disaster: Reconstructing the Sony BMG Rootkit Incident
Deirdre Mulligan and Aaron Perzanowski
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1072229

The Generative Internet
Jonathan Zittrain
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/119/may06/zittrain.pdf


We hope to see you on the 13th!