With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone apps - are exposed to a claim that somewhere a prior patent is being infringed. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results.… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
Facebook draws from the public and public-interest sphere, a simultaneously bold and modest step towards acknowledging that our new networked technologies deeply affect our… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share
