Article ID: CBB001180049

The future of free expression in a digital age (2008)

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Description From the Abstract: The great tension in twentieth century free speech theory was the increasing protection of the formal freedom to speak against the background of mass broadcast technologies that reserved practical freedom to a relative few. The tension in twenty-first century free speech theory is somewhat different: New technologies offer ordinary citizens a vast range of new opportunities to speak, create and publish; they decentralize control over culture, over information production and over access to mass audiences. But these same technologies also make information and culture increasingly valuable commodities that can be bought and sold and exported to markets around the world. These two conflicting effects - toward greater participation and propertization - are produced by the same set of technological advances. Technologies that create new possibilities for democratic cultural participation often threaten business models that seek to commodify knowledge and control its access and distribution. Intellectual property and telecommunications law may be the terrain on which this struggle occurs, but what is at stake is the practical structure of freedom of speech in the new century.


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Authors & Contributors
Con Diaz, Gerardo
Simon Cropper
Ana Muñiz
Jessa Lingel
Margaret Webb
Fiona Carroll
Concepts
Technology and law
Internet
Intellectual property
Cyberspace
Computers and computing
Patents
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Tennessee (U.S.)
Americas
Japan
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