Implications from the Internet Standard: A Potential Bridge Connecting the Copyright Law and Human Rights Law

Copyright Law and Organizing the Internet

Law, cosmopolitan law, and the protection of human rights

In Between Facts and Norms, Habermas articulates a system of rights, including human rights, within the democratic constitutional state. For Habermas, while human rights, like other subjective rights have moral content, they do not structurally belong to a moral system; nor should they be grounded in one. Instead, human rights belong to a positive and coercive legal order upon which individuals...

Internet Safe Harbors and the Transformation of Copyright Law

=2539165 (“Due to the robust nature of the immunity, Section 230 provides the legal foundation for many of the most popular websites that enable users to communicate with each other or the world at large.”). 24 See Edward Lee, Decoding the DMCA Safe Harbors, 32 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 233, 269 (2009) (“[T]he DMCA safe harbors have helped to foster tremendous growth in web applications.”). 25 For a r...

The Originality Standard for Literary Works under U.S. Copyright Law

Moral law and human rights.

HE purpose of this paper is to examine some of the basic terms in the discussion of 1 the theme of this symposium on 'Ethics and the practice of medicine'. These terms can be grouped under the headings of moral law and human rights; for if these two terms are defined a great many of the principles, whose application to medical practice is in question, will have been examined. A general paper li...