[Fwd: [Cybertalks] Fwd: COSC Dept. Colloquium - Monday, May 16, 2005, 4 PM]

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Subject: [Cybertalks] Fwd: COSC Dept. Colloquium - Monday, May 16, 2005, 4 PM
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 22:48:20 -0400
From: Sean Smith <sws-bJGkzYaaMJvEkZP4S/[email protected]>
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> From: [email protected] (Kelly J. Clark)
> Date: May 10, 2005 2:25:19 PM EDT
> To: colloq-bJGkzYaaMJvEkZP4S/[email protected]
> Subject: COSC Dept. Colloquium - Monday, May 16, 2005, 4 PM
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> COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPT.
> COLLOQUIUM
>
> Monday, May 16, 2005
> Fairchild 101
> 4:00 PM
>
> Wolfgang Coy
> Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Institut fuer Informatik
> Harris German-Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professor
>
> Is there something like digital property?
>
> The digital nature of emerging media raises a series of technical  
> challenges from microelectronics to software and networks, but it  
> redefines also traditional understandings of economy, law, and   
> politics. Going back to the invention of the printing press the  
> notion of property was extended to 'intellectual property',  
> primarily  patents and copyrights, the status of which remains  
> controversial.  The economy of industrial production depends  
> heavily on the idea of scarcity to be regulated predominantly by  
> markets. The economy of digital media, however, depends on the  
> process of copying coded data, basically copying and distributing  
> numbers. This could become an economy of plenitude in a networked  
> society, where some firm assumptions of classical economy are  
> technically outdated. Should 'property' be replaced by 'access' in  
> the information age?  How can we 'promote the progress of science  
> and useful arts' with digital technology?
>


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