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    • 45: Internet (A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects) 

      Zittrain, Jonathan (Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-12)
      In a book chartered to demonstrate intellectual property in objects, what concrete thing can represent the Internet, a phenomenon that exists only as a well-elaborated idea? Perhaps the best physical representation of the ...
    • Accountability and Transparency at ICANN: An Independent Review 

      Gasser, Urs; Burkert, Herbert; Palfrey, John Gorham; Zittrain, Jonathan (2010)
    • Answering impossible questions: Content governance in age of disinformation 

      Bowers, John; Zittrain, Jonathan (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2020)
      The governance of online platforms has unfolded across three eras – the era of Rights (which stretched from the early 1990s to about 2010), the era of Public Health (from 2010 through the present), and the era of Process ...
    • Answering Impossible Questions: Content Governance in an Age of Disinformation 

      Zittrain, Jonathan; Bowers, John (Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy, 2020-01-14)
      The governance of online platforms has unfolded across three eras – the era of Rights (which stretched from the early 1990s to about 2010), the era of Public Health (from 2010 through the present), and the era of Process ...
    • Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Cato Institute, 2003)
      As the Internet becomes part of daily living rather than a place to visit, its rough edges are smoothed and its extremes tamed by sovereigns wanting to protect consumers, prevent network resource abuse, and eliminate speech ...
    • Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2003)
      As the Internet becomes part of daily living rather than a place to visit, its rough edges are smoothed and its extremes tamed by sovereigns wanting to protect consumers, prevent network resource abuse, and eliminate speech ...
    • Book Review 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Nature Publishing Group, 2009)
    • Book Review: What's in a Name? 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Indiana University School of Law, 2002)
      In the spring of 1998, the U.S. government told the Internet: Govern yourself. This unfocused order - a blandishment, really, expressed as an awkward "statement of policy" by the Department of Commerce, carrying no direct ...
    • The Case for Kill Switches in Military Weaponry 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Nature Publishing Group, 2014)
    • Don't Panic: Making Progress on the "Going Dark" Debate 

      Gasser, Urs; Gertner, Nancy; Goldsmith, Jack L.; Landau, Susan; Nye, Joseph S.; O'Brien, David; Olsen, Matthew G.; Renan, Daphna; Sanchez, Julian; Schneider, Bruce; Schwartzol, Larry; Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, 2016)
      Just over a year ago, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University convened a diverse group of security and policy experts from academia, civil ...
    • Don’t Force Google to ‘Forget’ 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (2014)
    • Engineering an Election 

      Zittrain, Jonathan (Harvard Law Review, 2014-06-20)
    • Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (National Tax Association, 1999)
      Current tax law--and the current technical architecture of the Internet--make it difficult to enforce sales taxes on most Internet commerce. This has generated considerable policy debate. In this paper, we analyze the costs ...
    • Everything You Need to Know about Wikileaks 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L.; Sauter, Molly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    • Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services 

      Bates, Samantha L; Bowers, John; Greenstein, Shane M; Weinstock, Jordi Portell; Zittrain, Jonathan L. (2018)
      This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the ...
    • Fixing the internet 

      Zittrain, Jonathan (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018-11-22)
    • The Fourth Quadrant 

      Zittrain, Jonathan (2010)
      Jonathan Zittrain, The Fourth Quadrant, 78 Fordham Law Review 2767 (2010).
    • From Sony to SOPA: The Technology-Content Divide 

      Zittrain, Jonathan L. (Harvard Law School, 2013)
      Copyright law, which is intended to provide creative rights and financial protection to content creators, has been challenged by technology innovators whose products have the potential to promote free speech, but could ...
    • The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It 

      Zittrain, Jonathan (Yale University Press, 2008)
      This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the ...