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The United States is often described as a copyright "maximalist" nation. On this view, American policymakers, driven by a powerful domestic media industry, maximize the scope and duration of copyright protection, and encourage aggressive enforcement of copyright both domestically and internationally. This theory goes a long way toward explaining U.S. policy, but it does not tell the whole story. A careful reading of U.S. law, and of U.S. involvement in international negotiations, shows that American policymakers also attach value to the freedom, openness, and flexibility of the global Internet, and remain deeply skeptical of automatic, technological copyright enforcement online. This sets them apart from their European and Asian colleagues, and complicates the simple "maximalist" account of American copyright policy.

David Robinson is a Knight Law & Media Scholar at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.

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U.S. Federal policies require that government information technology, both for Federal employees and the public, be accessible for people with disabilities. Despite the clear policies in place, a majority of Federal web sites continue to be inaccessible. Federal policies related to web accessibility for private companies covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act are less clear, although new, stronger policies are currently under development by the Justice Department.

During 2010, there have been a number of actions taken by various federal agencies relating to web accessibility, including the draft of the new Section 508 regulations from the Access Board (March 2010), the memo from the Office of Management and Budget on Section 508 enforcement (July 2010), and the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the Justice Department, on the accessibility of web information provided by entities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (July 2010). This presentation will provide a history of federal policies and enforcement relating to web accessibility for both government and private web sites, detail the relationship between U.S. federal policies and international standards, describe the 2010 activity in web accessibility policy, discuss the problem of compliance and enforcement, and present the results from three data collection efforts related to web accessibility policy.

Jonathan was a panelist on a Washington DC radio show on 10/12/10 discussing web accessibility, both technical and policy. One of the callers into the show was the Assistant Secretary from the Department of Labor.

One Day Conference

This workshop is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to citp@princeton.edu with your full name and affiliation. Attendees registered by Friday, November 19, 2010 will receive lunch and a name tag.

The body of digital information held by various entities is both staggering and constantly expanding. Each day we hear new reports of newly digitized "dark" archives, enhanced digital tracing techniques, data privacy breaches, and aggregated data sets. At the same time, much historically important information goes unrecorded - at least in any usable or enduring digital form. How do we reconcile the many different constituencies, technologies, uses, and norms into sensible policy? This conference will gather leading experts from a variety of domains to discuss the challenges of "big data" and the attendant policy considerations.

Keynote Speaker: David Weinberger, Author of Everything is Miscellaneous and the forthcoming Too Big to Know

The Internet is approaching a critical point. The world is running out of Internet addresses. Internet engineers developed a new technical protocol, IPv6, to address this problem but IPv6 adoption has barely begun because of technical, cultural, and economic constraints. DeNardis's key insight is that technical standards are political. IPv6 serves as a case study for how protocols more generally are intertwined with socioeconomic and political order. IPv6 intersects with provocative topics including Internet civil liberties, U.S. military objectives, globalization, institutional power struggles, and the promise of global democratic freedoms. DeNardis offers recommendations for Internet standards governance, based not only on technical concerns, but also on principles of openness and transparency, and examines the global implications of looming Internet address scarcity versus the slow deployment of the new protocol designed to solve this problem.

Dr. Laura DeNardis is the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project. She is a scholar of Internet governance and architecture, teaches at Yale Law School, and is the author of Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (The MIT Press 2009), Information Technology in Theory (Thompson 2007 with Pelin Aksoy), and numerous book chapters and articles. Her upcoming edited collection, Opening Standards, the Global Politics of Interoperability, is in press and will be published by The MIT press in 2011. DeNardis received a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College.

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor open space

Barbara van Schewick will give a talk on her recently released and widely praised book, Internet Architecture and Innovation. Professor Marvin Ammori has described the book as "essential reading for anyone interested in Internet policy-and probably for anyone interested in the law, economics, technology, or start-ups." The book analyzes how the Internet's internal structure, or architecture, has fostered innovation in the past; why this engine of innovation is under threat; why the "market" alone won't protect Internet innovation; and which features of the Internet's architecture we need to preserve so that the Internet continues to serve as an engine of innovation in the future. Whether you are tired of or confused by the network neutrality debate, or simply wondering what is at stake, van Schewick's talk will be refreshing and illuminating. More information on the book, including an overview and excerpts, is available at Internet Architecture and Innovation, http://netarchitecture.org/.

Barbara van Schewick is an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, an Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Van Schewick's research focuses on the economic, regulatory, and strategic implications of communication networks. In particular, she explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to these changes. This work has made her a leading expert on the issue of network neutrality. Her papers on network neutrality have influenced regulatory debates in the United States, Canada and Europe. In 2007, van Schewick was one of three academics who, together with public interest groups, filed the petition that started the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality inquiry into Comcast's blocking of BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer protocols. She has testified before the FCC in en banc hearings and official workshops.

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor atrium

In this talk, Prasad will describe the problem he found, his experiences with politically motivated retribution, and the future of voting in India. He will be joined by Professor J. Alex Halderman from the University of Michigan, a security researcher who participated in Prasad's study. More information about the study and India's voting system is available online at www.IndiaEVM.org

Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru is a security researcher in India who was recently named as a recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's 2010 Pioneer Award for his work revealing security flaws in India's paperless electronic voting machines. He has endured jail time, repeated interrogations, and ongoing political harassment to protect an anonymous source that enabled him to conduct the first independent security review of India's electronic voting system. Prasad spent a year trying to convince election officials to complete such a review, but they insisted that the government-made machines were "perfect" and "tamperproof." Instead of blindly accepting the government's claims, Prasad's international team discovered serious flaws that could alter national election results. Months of hot debate have produced a growing consensus that India's electronic voting machines should be scrapped, and Prasad hopes to help his country build a transparent and verifiable voting system.

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor atrium

Every day, we rely on our web browsers to keep our communications secure. Whether we are submitting our credit card for purchases, doing online banking, or sending email, the same fundamental security structure is being used. The lock icon displayed by web browsers might give users reason to believe that the prevailing "certificate"-based model is trustworthy, the reality is that many vulnerabilities exist, and the risks are multiplying. Hundreds of different entities located around the world have the ability to issue fraudulent certificates that will nevertheless be trusted by our browsers. Overcoming the shortcomings in the current model and working toward a better model requires cooperation of corporations, the government, developers, and users. Many of the most difficult challenges are not technical in nature but rather social or political.

Keynote:
Andrew McLaughlin, White House Deputy CTO, Internet Policy
Panelists and Respondents:
Peter Eckersley, Senior Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adam Langley, Google
Scott Rea, Senior PKI Architect, DigiCert
Ari Schwartz, Senior Internet Policy Advisor, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul Vixie, President, Internet Software Consortium

Hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and the New America Foundation

This event is free and open to the public.

Wikipedia and similar collaborative technologies have begun to influence the ways that people understand and influence the world.

Representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation will discuss the policies and principles that govern the operations of the Wikipedia community, along with new efforts to make Wikipedia more relevant to governance, debate, and teaching in the broader world of public policy. How are wiki disputes handled? What do the wiki guidelines of "be bold" and "so fix it" mean? What opportunities do professors have to incorporate wiki editing in their curricula? What is the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative doing on Princeton's campus this year? Several Princeton faculty members will offer their reflections on these questions and others.

Wikimedia Foundation Presenters:
         Rod Dunican, Education Program's Manager
         Pete Forsyth, Public Outreach Officer
         Annie Lin, Campus Team Coordinator

Princeton University:
   Moderator:
         Ed Felten, Computer Science and Public Affairs
   Panelists:
         Paul DiMaggio, Sociology and Public Affairs
         Matt Salganik, Sociology
         Paul Starr, Sociology and Public Affairs

The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a research center located on the third floor of Sherrerd Hall that examines the myriad ways that information technology influences society and introduces policy dilemmas. Our work includes privacy and social media, computer security, broadband policy, government transparency, digital rights management, electronic voting and decision-making, online free speech, and much more. Come at 6:30pm on October 14th to eat, meet current students and faculty, and learn about:

• our new undergrad certificate
• what recent CITP-affiliated undergrads are up to
• how we can help you find internships, jobs, and graduate studies
• research opportunities at the center
• upcoming events
• how to connect with our visiting scholars, who are experts in their fields
• other tech policy connections on campus

  Assuming there is sufficient interest, we may also have a Wii Tennis face-off.

The internet is at once a means for great openness and great control - expression and exclusion. These forces have long been at work online, but have recently come to the fore in debates over the United States' cyber security policy and its increased focus on "internet freedom." The country now has a Cybersecurity "czar" that has presented a 12-part national initiative, and also has a Secretary of State that has forcefully stated the case for internet freedom. But what do these principles mean in practice?

This workshop explores how security and freedom both compliment each other and compete. A spectrum of security risks at different layers of the network beg for technical and governance solutions. Flash points like the recent Google-in-China developments highlight the nexus of security and speech. A growing discourse about internet freedom calls out for workable theories and models. This event will bring together technologists, policymakers, and academics to discuss the state of play and viable ways forward.

This workshop is free and open to the public. To register, please RSVP to citp@princeton.edu with your full name and affiliation. Registered attendees will receive lunch and a name tag.