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\LARGE\bf Ethics, Law, and Civil Disobedience\\
on the World Wide Web\\[.2in]

\large\bf Dave Touretzky\\
April 17, 1996
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\section*{Copyright}

\begin{itemize}

\item Linking to others' sites without permission.  (None is needed, but
some folks feel a need to ask anyway.)

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) copyright policy.\\
 {\bf http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright\verb+_+policy.html}

What about linking to a site that you know is violating a copyright?
``The ClamBed'' and the legal status of URLs.

\item Transclusion: incorporating others' work on your pages.  (The Dilbert dilemma.)

\item Copying web pages and GIF files.  Scientology vs. toocool.com.

\item Copyright. Fair use.  Trade secrets.  Trademarks.

``10 Big Myths about copyright explained'' by Brad Templeton.  Includes a
pointer to a more extensive copyright FAQ.  {\bf http://www.clarinet.com/brad/copymyths.html}

The American Lawyer tries to explain the recent spate of Scientology lawsuits.\\
{\bf http://www.counsel.com/spotlight/scien2.html}

\item Is merely reading a copyrighted article infringement?  (Your browser
had to download it, which means a copy was made in your computer.)

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\section*{Privacy}

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\item Logging web page accesses.  How much is your browser reveealing about you?

\item Proxy servers for anonymous browsing.

\item Who gets to read the server's log files?  The case of the Greek
plagiarist.

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\section*{Letting The Cat Out of the Bag}

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\item Pre-web example: Daniel Ellsberg, The New York Times, and the
Pentagon Papers.  From Dean Benjamin: ``If we were bombing Cambodia today,
where would the Pentagon Papers appear?  Would Ellsberg have gone public,
or instead posted ala Scamizdat?''

\item The tobacco company documents. {\bf http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/bw.html}

\item Church of Scientology v. Fishman and Geertz.  The Operating Thetan documents.\\
{\bf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/\verb+~+dst/Fishman}

\item IRA/Sinn Fein site in Texas reveals UK defense secrets.

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\section*{Civil Disobedience}

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\item 100 Dutchmen take on the Church of Scientology.

\item Scamizdat and search engines:  playing hide and seek with the
trade secrets of Scientology.

\item Suppressed books live again: Le Grand Secret, The Scandal Of
Scientology, A Piece of Blue Sky.

\item The Plaid Folder.

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\section*{Censorship and the World Wide Web}

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\item Arnie Lerma's essay, {\it The Internet is the Liberty Tree of the 90s.}\\
{\bf http://styx.ios.com/\verb+~+dizzyman/alerma.htm}

\item Declan McCullagh's international net censorship roundup.\\
{\bf http://www.cs.cmu.edu/\verb+~+declan/zambia/}

\item Universities, including CMU, sometimes censor student web pages.
(The Twinkies trademark case.)  

\item Liability of service providers.  Who is responsible for what you put
on your web page?

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\section*{Dangerous Knowledge}

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\item MIT lock picking guide.  Explosives guides.  A-bomb plans.

\item The Terrorist's Handbook.  {\bf http://www.liberty.com/home/leahy/Welcome.html}

\end{itemize}

\section*{General References}

\begin{itemize}

\item Hal Abelson's course at MIT:  6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier.\\
{\bf http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805/}

\item Electronic Frontier Foundation:  {\bf http://www.eff.org/}

\end{itemize}

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