Computer Ethics, Sum 2016


Class 7, June 14

Class 7 Readings

Read Chapter 3 on Free Speech.


This just in! (Ok, from 11 days ago). The Ninth Circuit has upheld a de minimus sampling defense:
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2016/06/de-minimis-music-sampling-isnt-infringement-salsoul-v-madonna.htm

No way I could find it, so I turned to
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/26512/Madonna-Vogue-The-Salsoul-Orchestra-Ooh,-I-Love-It-(Love-Break)/

The sampling was done by producer Shep Pettibone. Why do you think he did this? Ok, it was done in 1990.


The D.C. Circuit Court upheld the Obama Administration's net-neutrality rules:

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/court-upholds-obama-backed-net-neutrality-rules-224309


  
Privacy:
    RFID
    SSN
    Price Discrimination

Speech:
    Section 230 examples
    Harassment
    Criminal Libel
    Google in Italy
    First-person libel
   
Threats
    Planned Parenthood v American Coalition of Life Activists