Professor Henry Perritt has recently uploaded two new articles to SSRN, The Internet at 20: Evolution of a Constitution for Cyberspace (Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J., forthcoming 2012) and Crowdsourcing Indie Movies (working paper). Read the abstracts for both papers below.
The Internet at 20 Abstract
“This Article looks back over the Internet’s first twenty years, highlighting the crucial legal decisions by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches that have led to the Internet’s success, and which now frame its constitution. I participated in many of these decisions and wrote more than a dozen law review articles and reports suggesting directions for public policy and law. This Article uses this foundation to consider the future, focusing on major legal controversies, the resolution of which will define the Internet’s third decade—either strengthening or undermining its constitution.”
Download the article from SSRN here.
Crowdsourcing Indie Movies Abstract
“Internet-centered technology developments are revolutionizing the ways in which movies can be made. The use of crowdsourcing to make indie movies is a possibility that has not yet been explored fully, although the use of crowdsourcing to raise money for artistic works is growing. Crowdsourcing can be used for every step of making a movie, increasing the range of collaboration available to creators and reducing capital requirements. The article uses a fictional account of a team of young moviemakers to explain how they can use crowdsourcing for each step of making their movie, considering what plans they should make for crowdsourcing, the available Web-based and software tools, and the business and legal issues that arise from that use of crowdsourcing. It concludes by identifying desirable technology developments and legal reform.”
Download the article from SSRN here.
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