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Duke Magazine
Forum
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Private Censorship and Perfect Choice: The
Future of the Internet?
A Conversation with James Boyle and Adrienne Davis was the theme
of Duke Magazine's second annual Campus Forum, held March 28 and
co-sponsored with Duke's law school and the Center for the Study
of the Public Domain.
Boyle (right), William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, discussed
with Davis (left), a law professor at the University of North
Carolina at
Chapel Hill,
a "new environmentalism for the information age" that "first
seeks to invent the public domain and then save it." Much
of the questioning from the audience--including prospective law
students--focused on ethical and legal issues associated with downloading
music and films over the Internet. Boyle is the author of Shamans,
Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information
Society. Davis is a frequent commentator on controversial issues
of privacy law, property, and social power.
The magazine's inaugural Campus Forum, held last year, featured
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
in the Duke Divinity School.
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