Eben Moglen Concepts

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words

cyberspace; a series of formative conversations with Mitch Kapor; a couple of madly imaginative sessions with Charlie Nesson; and a moment of true understanding with Eben Moglen. Equally central from around that time, but at an angle, were a paper under Terry Fisher's guidance on nineteenth-century homesteading and the radical

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control, freedom, and creativity in the digital environment. Over the course of these years, I spent many hours learning from Jamie Boyle, Terry Fisher, and Eben Moglen. In different ways and styles, each of them has had significant influence on my work. There was a moment, sometime between the conference Boyle organized

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of free software have been central to the free software movement and its founder, Richard Stallman, and were developed provocatively and with great insight by Eben Moglen. Free software is but one salient example of a much broader phenomenon. Why can fifty thousand volunteers successfully coauthor Wikipedia, the most serious online alternative

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. Some care about Viking ships, others about the integrity of voting machines. Some care about obscure music bands, others share a passion for baking. As Eben Moglen put it, "if you wrap the Internet around every person on the planet and spin the planet, software flows in the network. It's an

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Optimal Patent Life: A Geometric Reinterpretation," American Economic Review 62 (1972): 422-427. 16. Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005). 17. Eben Moglen, "Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright," First Monday (1999), ‹http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_8/moglen/. Part One: The Networked Information

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Elkin Koren explored copyright and democracy; Keith Aoki questioned trademark, patents, and global trade systems; Julie Cohen early explored technical protection systems and privacy; and Eben Moglen began mercilessly to apply the insights of free software to hack at the foundations of intellectual property apologia. Rebecca Eisenberg, and more recently, Arti Rai

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, by sharing the capacity of their computers, hard drives, and network connections. Filtering and accreditation, or "promotion," are produced on the [pg 426] model that Eben Moglen called "anarchist distribution." Jane's friends and friends of her friends are more likely to know exactly what music would make her happy than are

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Optimal Patent Life: A Geometric Reinterpretation," American Economic Review 62 (1972): 422-427. 16. Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005). 17. Eben Moglen, "Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright," First Monday (1999), ‹http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_8/moglen/›. 18. For an excellent history

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Elkin Koren explored copyright and democracy; Keith Aoki questioned trademark, patents, and global trade systems; Julie Cohen early explored technical protection systems and privacy; and Eben Moglen began mercilessly to apply the insights of free software to hack at the foundations of intellectual property apologia. Rebecca Eisenberg, and more recently, Arti Rai

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier · 2 Mar 2015 · 598pp · 134,339 words

discretion, chooses to track—may ‘alter the relationship between citizen and government in a way that is inimical to democratic society.’ ” Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen wrote that “omnipresent invasive listening creates fear. And that fear is the enemy of reasoned, ordered liberty.” Surveillance is a tactic of intimidation. In the

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it’s not just up to governments and corporations. We the people have a lot of work to do here. DEFEND AGAINST SURVEILLANCE Law professor Eben Moglen wrote, “If we are not doing anything wrong, then we have a right to do everything we can to maintain the traditional balance between us

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,” United States v. Jones (No. 10-1259), http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=10-1259#opinion1. Eben Moglen wrote: Eben Moglen (27 May 2014), “Privacy under attack: The NSA files revealed new threats to democracy,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/27/-sp

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: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, Simon and Schuster, https://www.facebook.com/thefacebookeffect. Privacy is an inherent human right: Eben Moglen defines privacy in three parts: “First is secrecy, or our ability to keep the content of our messages known only to those we intend to

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reading. Third is autonomy, or our ability to make our own life decisions free from any force that has violated our secrecy or our anonymity.” Eben Moglen (27 May 2014), “Privacy under attack: The NSA files revealed new threats to democracy,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/27/-sp-privacy

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Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, Basic Books, http://www.owlasylum.net/owl_underground/social/ConsentoftheNetworked.pdf. 15: Solutions for the Rest of Us Law professor Eben Moglen wrote: Eben Moglen (27 May 2014), “Privacy under attack: The NSA files revealed new threats to democracy,” Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/27/-sp

Free as in Freedom

by Sam Williams · 16 Nov 2015

think if you want to understand Richard Stallman the human being, you really need to see all of the parts as a consistent whole," advises Eben Moglen, legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation and professor of law at Columbia University Law School. "All those personal eccentricities that lots of people see

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the largest role in creating it. "There isn't a lawyer on earth who would have drafted the 150 GPL the way it is," says Eben Moglen, Columbia University law professor and Free Software Foundation general counsel. "But it works. And it works because of Richard's philosophy of design." A former

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for writing this book. Since July, 2000, I have learned to appreciate both the seductive and the repellent sides of the Richard Stallman persona. Like Eben Moglen before me, I feel that dismissing that persona as epiphenomenal or distracting in relation to the overall free software movement would be a grievous mistake

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

within the computer underground. The most renowned insider drawing parallels between Marx and the hacker movement is Eben Moglen. As the pro bono general counsellor for the Free Software Foundation, an influential organisation of hackers, Eben Moglen is well accustomed with the practice of hacking. He is convinced that capitalism will be brought to

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growth of the bloggsphere. Once a critical mass of contributors has been built up, grass-root reporting is at an advantage over traditional news reporting. Eben Moglen, a prominent member of the Free Software Foundation, identified this mechanism when noticing that the broadcasting networks, with their over-paid celebrities and expensive equipment

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York Times (Sunday 11, June 2000). 12. Slavoj Zizek, “A Cyberspace Lenin: Why Not?”, International Socialism Journal 95, (summer 2002). 13. In “The DotCommunism Manifesto” Eben Moglen directly paraphrases Karl Marx’s manifesto.emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/dcm.html (accessed 2007-02-08). 14. “Gates Taking a Seat in Your Den

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Practice (New York: Routledge, 2003), Dan Gillmore, We the Media—Grassroots Journalism—By the People, For the People (Cebastopol C.A.; O’Reilly, 2006). 20. Eben Moglen, “Anarchism Triumphant, Free Software and the Death of Copyright”, First Monday, vol.4, no.8 (August 1999). 21. See David Anderson, “SETI@home” in Andy

Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution

by Glyn Moody · 14 Jul 2002 · 483pp · 145,225 words

open source software itself may have just as great an impact as open journalism in reshaping the landscape of intellectual property. One such is Professor Eben Moglen, professor of legal history at Columbia University and general counsel to the Free Software Foundation. His contention is that the current overlapping legal systems of

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of postings made by its readers. The Kerberos saga therefore makes explicit the increasingly tangled relationships between trade secrets, free software, copyright, and freedom—as Eben Moglen, general counsel to the Free Software Foundation, had predicted. Moglen is able to speak directly from experience regarding another area where free software potentially faces

Collaborative Futures

by Mike Linksvayer, Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv · 24 Aug 2010 · 188pp · 9,226 words

are always producing with others, and why we do so has varied explanations not all of which can be explained in the language of incentives. Eben Moglen captures this well in his discussion of the energy behind creativity in general and free so ware in particular: “According to the econodwarf’s vision

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emergent property of connected human minds that they create things for one another's pleasure and to conquer their uneasy sense of being too alone. —Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free So ware and the Death of Copyright The dogma of monetary incentives, with which Moglen quarrels, is rooted in a philosophical history

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against intellectual property law from a consumer rights horizon and borrow arguments from a liberal, political tradition. There are, of course, noteworthy exceptions. People like Eben Moglen, 134 Slavoj Zizek and Richard Barbrook have reacted against the liberal ideology implicit in much talk about the Internet by courting the revolutionary rhetoric of

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words

of the fastest 500 supercomputers, as well as by Fortune 500 companies, and even runs on embedded systems like tablet computers and mobile phones.7 Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, wrote in 1999 of the seminal importance of the Linux achievement: Because Torvalds chose to release

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Is Law: On Liberty in Cyberspace,” Harvard Magazine, January-February 2000, http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law-html (accessed June 13, 2013). 6. Eben Moglen, “Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright,” First Monday 4(8) (August 2, 1999), http://pear.accc.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

by Rebecca MacKinnon · 31 Jan 2012 · 390pp · 96,624 words

older project, StatusNet, enables people to set up their own Twitter-like microblogging services that they can control locally. In early 2011 Columbia University professor Eben Moglen announced a new project dubbed FreedomBox, aimed at addressing the vulnerability of activists and dissidents who currently rely too much on centralized corporate services like

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/16/nyregion/16about.html; and “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing—A Speech Given by Eben Moglen at a Meeting of the Internet Society’s New York Branch on Feb. 5, 2010,” Software Freedom Law Center, www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2010/isoc

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz · 4 Nov 2016 · 374pp · 97,288 words

General Public License, or GPL. Examples of free software products include the Firefox web browser, the Apache web server, and MySQL relational database software. As Eben Moglen, head of the Software Freedom Law Center and one of the drafters of the current version of the GPL explains, “Licenses are not contracts: the

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‘Contract Not to Sue’: Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses,” Iowa Law Review 98 (March 2013): 1103–1160, at 1141. 40. Eben Moglen, “Enforcing the GNU GPL,” GNU.org, September 10, 2001, http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html, accessed July 7, 2015. 41. See 17 U

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne · 9 Sep 2019 · 482pp · 121,173 words

-for-mlat-reform/. Back to note reference 7. By coincidence, another judicial clerk arrived at the same time with a personal computer. His name was Eben Moglen, and he worked for a judge across the corridor on the twenty-second floor in Foley Square. We often chatted about our common interest in