This wiki page is for posting questions
around which Evans Series speaker Paul Jones will build his talk.
Paul's topic:
“Expression, Repression & Association:
What happens when intellectual property laws, social networks and privacy collide"
Thursday, October 19, 2006
7-8:30 p.m., Science Auditorium
Part of the Evans Speakers Series, "Expression & Repression"
Paul helped start up ibiblio.org, is a collaboration between the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Center for the Public Domain. Recently, ibiblio has been featured in articles in major newspapers:
"Library Without Walls"
August 21, 2006
The Financial Express (India)
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=137881
"Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod"
August 25, 2006
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/books/25audi.html
"Where sharing isn't a dirty word" Wired News, November, 2003
"Better if we share" News and Observer, January 2005
Paul Jones
Director of ibiblio.org;
Clinical Associate Professor,
School of Journalism and Mass Communication and SILS
Please put your queries for Paul here: (I'm attempting to organize the questions here. Your questions should all still be here, but grouped in a way that might help a talk make more sense - pjones)
>> What is Net neutrality and why should we care about it?
See the PBS Special, Net @ Risk, to air on Wednesday October 18 in which Bill Moyers and Rick Karr interview representatives of both MoveOn and the Christian Coalition to give a very good description of what they feel is at risk. As well as speaking to Mike McCurry (who represents telcos) as he explains that a multi-tier internet is a good idea. Preview of the show is here on YouTube. pjones
Copyright, Copyleft and Intellectual Property Issues
Peter Jaszi's growth and non-growth of the Public Domain chart
>> How has copyright law in the United States been subverted by commercial interests, and what should we (as a society, as a people) do about it?
Koleman Strumpf on economic impact of P2P
>> What do you feel is the future of online file sharing, i.e music,videos and books, and its role in our society? KES
>> How much money have the music and movie industries really lost to free file sharing? Is the amount substantial, and would the people downloading the data be the ones purchasing the products anyway? LC
>>What do you think the recording industry will do to compete with and keep up with online file sharing? TD
>> How should students' rights and colleges' ownership rights be balanced when it comes to intellectual property? (MR)
>>In the Slashdot article, you stated that not all of the material available in ibiblio is copyleft. Could you explain to us the difference between copyright and copyleft, and inform us as to which kind of material ibiblio contains more of? Additionally, has ibiblio ever run into problems with copyright law? As a sidenote, do you personally believe that the ability to copyright, especially in the academic world, should be done away with in the interest if sharing information? (HKW)
Things More or Less ibiblian
>>I'm interested in the logistics of offering a library without limits. It's an incredible undertaking and must prove to be an incredible headache. Ibiblio has a policy of no commercial or illegal entries. How is this maintained? How does one monitor something so immense? (PA)
>>Are there certain restrictions or guidelines which ibiblio focuses on to determine the material it shares? (EHC)
>> I find the concept of ibiblio.org very interesting and useful. Before Dr.Carroll's class I had no idea ibiblio.org existed. How do people find out about ibiblio? Are there ads? How did you get involved with ibiblio? What differentiates it? (AA)
Open Source and Open Content
>> How credible is open-source information, i.e. Wikipedia? Should a professor allow anonymous (yet peer-reviewed) articles to count as a legitimate source when conducting scholarly research? jac
>>How do legal pressures stifle open source's growth? (ah)
>>What inspired you to become a crusader for the spread of free information? What do you think the future for online databases will bring? Do you think a site such as google, run by a corporation, monopolizes the spread of free and pertinent information by generating what information is the most "relevant"?
Social Networking Systems
danah boyd's bibliography of Social Network researchers
Fred Stutzman's Unit Structures - Social Networks research and thoughts (especially on Facebook)
Fred's Facebook research papers
>>We hear a lot about social communities like myspace.com and FaceBook. What's talked about less are the public domain communities that have taken the open source model and built participatory communities like wikipedia and your own ibibilio.com. What do these participatory communities teach us? What is the change that has caused people to galavanize such communities online and where is it going? Where is it taking us?
>>When dealing with privacy issues in social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, do you think there will be more privacy in the future and do you think that high school/college administration, work employers, etc.. have the jurisdiction to regulate what their students, employees, etc.. can put on their pages? -BMD
>>How much responsibility does the government have in protecting people on the Internet, and how much of that responsibility is the people's? Specifically, should restrictions be placed on friend networks (like FaceBook) to protect users? RP
>>Do you feel that we are on the verge of losing our privacy, by unintentional means, due to mediums such as myspace, livejournal, and facebook? This is to say, do you think people are unknowingly giving up thier privacy, without knowing what will happen as a result of "harmless" online publications?(r.l.p)
>> What are your thoughts on the recent jury decision to award $11.3 million in damages to the Florida woman offended by an online posting? What does this ruling imply in regard to future litigation concerning blog postings? How much First Amendmant protection is or should be offered to blog authors? (EW)