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[OPTIONAL: Right to Be Forgotten readings] e Zoe Bedell, “Google to France: ‘Forget You’ - An Update on the Right to Be Forgotten” Lawfare (May 25, 2016) https://www.lawfareblog.com/qoogle-france-forget-you-%E2%80%93-update-right-be-for gotten archived at https://perma.cc/W9EX-5AGZ. e Google Spain v. Mario Costeja Gonzalez ECJ opinion (May 13, 2014) http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document_print.jsf?doclang=EN&docid=152065 archived at https://perma.cc/3ARS-3XC4. o Read paragraphs 89-99 e Brendan van Alsenoy and Marieke Koekkoek, The Extraterritorial Reach of the EU’s ‘Right to Be forgotten’ (January 19, 2015). CiTiP Working paper 20/2015. Available at SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2551838 archived at https://perma.cc/B3SF-YJ3W. o Read pages 3-22 Day 2: Copyright Copyright was once thought of as the defining battle of consumer networking. Academic technologies brought into the mainstream made it trivial to prepare and distribute perfect copies of copyrighted work without permission -- and the comparatively powerful organizations representing copyright holders saw this as an existential threat. We will read some of the “grim joy” experienced by Internet freedom types in dancing on the grave of copyright in the mid-1990s -- and immerse in some of the law and policy changes effected in the United States to deal with the problem without running up against the equities of rapidly-growing intermediaries of online and Internet service providers (turns out, there’s a difference). The copyright wars revealed a variety of strategies that we'll look at with the benefit of years of hindsight, including lawsuits against network providers, software makers, and individual users both sending and receiving files, as well as technical changes designed to make it more difficult to share items that wish not to be shared. Ultimately we are drawn to the question of whether the wars were won by one side or another, or whether it’s more accurate to say that they simply faded away. What issues today feel make-or-break, yet could simply fade rather than be resolved, and why? We'll end the day with a peek into, and practice of, a current intense if obscure debate: that of whether digital rights management hooks should be placed into standards for Web browsers. Readings: e John Perry Barlow, “The Economy of Ideas,” Wired (March 1994) htto://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html?topic=&topic set= archived at https://perma.cc/P82S-RZP3. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024260