Contents

• Prelude
  • Motivation
  • Who This Is For
  • Typographical Note
  
  
• The Conventional View Of Communication
  • Definition of Information
  • Historical Overview Of Information Transmission
  • History And The Internet
  
  
• A Communication Model
  • The Model
  • Example
  • Elaborations on the Model
  • Fundamental Property: Symmetry
  • Fundamental Property: Only Humans Communicate
  • Fundamental Property: Everything Is Digital
  • Review
  
  
• Censorship and Free Speech
  • What's The Difference?
  • Free Speech
  • Censorship
  • The Difference
  • Summary
  
  
• Software and Software Patents
  • What is a Patent?
  • What is Software?
  • All Software Is Communication!
  • Patents On Communication?
  • It's Even Worse Then That
  • Patents v. Free Speech
  • Patents & Copyright
  
  
• The Death Of ``Expression''
  • What Is An Expression?
  • Why Is The Expression Doctrine Dead?
  • A Thousand Cuts
  • Conclusion (The Funeral Procession)
  
  
• A New Model for Copyright
  • Why Copyright?
  • The Concrete Part/Human Perception Model
  • Analysis of the Model
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Privacy
  • Review
  • Privacy: Traditional Motivation
  • Communication Privacy
  • Privacy Ethics
  • Privacy Legal Machinery
  • Practical Privacy
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Message Integrity
  • Concrete Message Integrity
  • Human Perception Integrity
  • Annotation
  • Other Integrity Attacks
  • The ``Patch'' Hole
  • Integrity of Messages as Derivation Trees
  • Applications And Examples
  • Why Is Integrity Desirable?
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Misc.
  • Public File Sharing
  • Trade secrets and trademarks
  • Spam And E-Mail: Forcing Reception?
  • Digital Rights Management
  • Communities on the Internet and Community Standards
  • ``Accessing'' Computers?
  • Common Carriers are Vital
  • Meta-engines (better name... meta-site?)
  
  
• Degrees Of Freedom and Applications
  • Degrees Of Freedom
  • Sender Control Over Message
  • Terminology
  • Corporations and the Principle of Symmetry
  • The Law
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Appendix: Biographical
  • Biographical
  • Intellectual Property Interests
  • IANAL
  
  
• The Goals of the Ethics Framework
  • Simplicity
  • Robustness
  • Completeness
  • Short-Term Viability
  • Usefulness
  • Conclusion
  
  
• Appendix: The Technical Lawyer
  • Technical Curriculum for the Technical Lawyer
  
  
• License and Copyright Claim