Survey of Telecommunications & Information Policy
with Dr. Tom Martin

Issue Analyses

  1. Fair Use
    • The issues this paper focuses on are:
      1. Should the prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act against breaking intellectual property safeguards be modified?
      2. How can the intellectual property community protect their intellectual property without the DMCA safeguards?
      3. Is there a need to legitimate digital rights management mechanisms for protecting intellectual property?
      4. Is there a need for legal and technological protection mechanisms that are uniform internationally?
  2. Spyware
    • The issues this paper focuses on are:
      1. What non-regulatory practices can users follow to reduce the incidence of spyware on their computers?
      2. Should parents, employers, and government be allowed to use spyware to monitor for bad behavior?
      3. Should spyware be allowed for digital rights management, as exemplified by Sony and Microsoft practices?
      4. Should legislation focus just on spyware, on undesirable practices (with spyware being just one), or should legislation focus on protecting privacy and security of personal information?