Free Pony Theory ~ Internet regulatin vs. freedom

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

The PhD thesis entitled Disruptive Technology: Effects of Technology Regulation on Democracy deals with the negative democratic effects which often arise when attempts are made to regulate the Internet technology.

By studying the attempts to regulate the disruptive effects of Internet technology and the consequences of these regulatory attempts on the IT-based participatory democracy this work shows that the regulation of technology is the regulation of democracy.

The work has been written by Mathias Klang who is Project Lead for Creative Commons Sweden.

The PhD thesis is the first of its kind to be released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5) in Sweden.

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6075

page here
http://www.ituniv.se/~klang/web/thesis/

Thesis abstract here
http://www.ituniv.se/~klang/web/thesis/blurb.html

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Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

"In recent months, Slashdot has covered the rise of the Pirate Party and the battles in Europe over iPod interoperability. Canada's Hill Times has an insightful column from Michael Geist that links these developments as the growing importance of copyright as a political issue. He argues that copyright is now tracking the environment as a mainstream political issue."

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/10/12/1316254.shtml

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Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

Larry Lessig’s book Free Culture can be read on the web.

http://free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf