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Books to Read
The Generative Internet
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN
Oxford Internet Institute; Harvard Law School; University of Oxford Faculty of Law
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 28/2006
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006/1
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, p. 1974, May 2006
Berkman's Prof. John Palfrey (Executive Director and Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard) led a session discussing Prof. Jonathan Zittrain 's theory of generativity . OII and SDP student Nick live-blogged the session and Berkman faculty fellow Urs Gasser has his take here .
Abstract:
The generative capacity for unrelated and unaccredited audiences to build and distribute code and content through the Internet to its tens of millions of attached personal computers has ignited growth and innovation in information technology and has facilitated new creative endeavors. It has also given rise to regulatory and entrepreneurial backlashes. A further backlash among consumers is developing in response to security threats that exploit the openness of the Internet and of PCs to third-party contribution. A shift in consumer priorities from generativity to stability will compel a response from regulators and markets and, if unaddressed, could prove decisive in closing today's open computing environments. This Article explains why PC openness is as important as network openness, as well as why today's open network might give rise to unduly closed endpoints. It argues that the Internet is better conceptualized as a generative grid that includes both PCs and networks rather than as an open network indifferent to the configuration of its endpoints. Applying this framework, the Article explores ways - some of them bound to be unpopular among advocates of an open Internet represented by uncompromising end-to-end neutrality - in which the Internet can be made to satisfy genuine and pressing security concerns while retaining the most important generative aspects of today's networked technology.
Keywords: cyberlaw, internet, generativity, drm, digital rights management, security, intellectual property
JEL Classifications: D18, K1, K10, K2, K20, K42, O3, O31, O32, O33, O34
Suggested CitationZittrain, Jonathan, "The Generative Internet" . Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, p. 1974, May 2006 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=847124
