Pamela Samuelson
Over the past two years, I have written seven “Legally Speaking” columns and one feature article for Communications about legal issues affecting computing…
Legally speaking: First Amendment rights for information providers?
Applying the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to computerized communication of information is raising many interesting questions. While the general principle of…
Legally speaking: is information property?
This column will discuss why the law has traditionally resisted characterizing information as the sort of thing that can be private property, and will speculate about why…
Legally speaking: how to interpret the Lotus decision (and how not to)
On June 28, 1990, a federal court judge in Boston made public his decision in favor of Lotus Development Corporation in its software copyright lawsuit against Paperback…
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