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Anne Wells Branscomb (Author)
Drawing on eleven case studies, a communications lawyer addresses the issue of who owns information, explaining the ramifications of the ownership of medical records, telephone numbers, personal names, culture, computer software, and more.
Back Jacket
‘Every word we record, every trip we make, every item we buy or order, and every move we make leaves a trace or trail. Who owns it, controls it, has access to it? Anne Wells Branscomb has written a very accessible guidebook for students, scholars, and all citizens on how to think about control of information and thus of action.’-George Gerbner, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Annenberg School of Communication
Author Biography
Anne Wells Branscomb a communications and computer lawyer, is a legal scholar-in-residence at Harvard University’s Program on Information Resources Policy. A frequent contributor to both popular and professional journals on the relationship of information technology to the law, she is the editor of Toward a Law of Global Communications Networks.
Number of Pages: 256Dimensions: 0.52 x 8.2 x 5.3 INPublication Date: August 15, 2005
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