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Mike Godwin

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Michael Wayne Godwin (born October 26, 1956) is an American attorney and author. [1]

60 relations: ALM (company), Austin, Texas, BBC News, BBC News Online, Broadcast flag, Bruce Sterling, Bulletin board system, Center for Democracy and Technology, CNN, Communications Decency Act, Cyber Rights, Digital rights management, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Communications Commission, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Florence Devouard, General counsel, Godwin's law, Houston, Houston Chronicle, Information Society Project, Intellectual property, Internet meme, Juris Doctor, Lamar High School (Houston), LinkedIn, List of Wikipedia people, MIT Press, Neal Stephenson, Nick Farrell, Open Source Initiative, Project Gutenberg, Public Knowledge, R Street Institute, Reason (magazine), Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, Steve Jackson (American game designer), Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, Student Press Law Center, Supreme Court of the United States, Symbols of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Texas, Texas Monthly, The American Lawyer, The Daily Texan, The Difference Engine, The Hacker Crackdown, The Holocaust, The Inquirer, ..., The New York Times, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas School of Law, Vernor Vinge, Wikimedia Foundation, William Gibson, Wired (magazine), Yale Law School, Yale University. Expand index (10 more) »

ALM (company)

ALM (formerly American Lawyer Media) is a media company located in New York City, and is a provider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal, insurance, and commercial real estate sectors.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Broadcast flag

A broadcast flag is a set of status bits (or a "flag") sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not the data stream can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content.

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Bruce Sterling

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and work on the Mirrorshades anthology.

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Bulletin board system

A bulletin board system or BBS (also called Computer Bulletin Board Service, CBBS) is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.

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Center for Democracy and Technology

Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is a Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen individual rights and freedoms by defining, promoting, and influencing technology policy and the architecture of the Internet.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Communications Decency Act

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.

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Cyber Rights

Cyber Rights: Defending Free speech in the Digital Age is a non-fiction book about cyberlaw, written by free speech lawyer Mike Godwin.

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is a set of access control technologies for restricting the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.

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Florence Devouard

Florence Jacqueline Sylvie Devouard, née Nibart (born 10 September 1968) was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation between October 2006 and July 2008.

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General counsel

A general counsel, chief counsel, or chief legal officer (CLO) is the chief lawyer of a legal department, usually in a company or a governmental department.

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Godwin's law

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) is an internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1"; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or his deeds.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Information Society Project

The Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School is an intellectual center studying the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society.

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Intellectual property

Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

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Internet meme

An Internet meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase, or piece of media that spreads, often as mimicry or for humorous purposes, from person to person via the Internet.

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Juris Doctor

The Juris Doctor degree (J.D. or JD), also known as the Doctor of Jurisprudence degree (J.D., JD, D.Jur. or DJur), is a graduate-entry professional degree in law and one of several Doctor of Law degrees.

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Lamar High School (Houston)

Mirabeau B. Lamar High School is a comprehensive public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States.

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps.

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List of Wikipedia people

The list of Wikipedia people includes notable editors, founders and functionaries of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.

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Nick Farrell

Nick Farrell (born December 17, 1975 in East York, Ontario) is a retired boxer from Canada.

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Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Public Knowledge

Public Knowledge is a non-profit Washington, D.C.-based public interest group that is involved in intellectual property law, competition, and choice in the digital marketplace, and an open standards/end-to-end internet.

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R Street Institute

The R Street Institute is an American conservative and libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C..

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.

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Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union,, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously ruled that anti-indecency provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) violated First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.

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Steve Jackson (American game designer)

Steve Jackson (born c. 1953) is an American game designer.

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Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service

Steve Jackson Games, Inc.

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Student Press Law Center

The Student Press Law Center (SPLC) is a non-profit organization in the United States that aims to protect the freedom of the press for student journalists, usually at high school and university student newspapers.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Symbols of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the symbol of the FBI.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas.

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The American Lawyer

The American Lawyer is a monthly law magazine published by ALM.

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The Daily Texan

The Daily Texan is the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.

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The Hacker Crackdown

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier is a work of nonfiction by Bruce Sterling first published in 1992.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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The Inquirer

The Inquirer is a British technology tabloid website founded by Mike Magee after his departure from The Register (of which he was one of the founding members) in 2001.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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University of Texas School of Law

The University of Texas School of Law (Texas Law) is an ABA-certified law school on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Vernor Vinge

Vernor Steffen Vinge (born October 2, 1944) is an American science fiction author and retired professor.

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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Yale Law School

Yale Law School (often referred to as Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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