My first day of classes included Cyberspace Law with one of my favorite profs. (A friend of mine always shakes his head when I mention this class: "'Cyberspace' is like 'the Information Superhighway;' who says that anymore?!").
Obviously the famous Stanford law prof Lawrence Lessig came up a lot in our class discussions. I told my story of Lessig: A friend of mine Troubles in Paradox got us invited to the 4th birthday party of Creative Commons (Lessig's new-age copyright brain child). We were very excited because we thought Lessig was scheduled to speak at the party. Instead, he appeared as his online avatar from Second Life on a projected computer screen. Disappointing.
Anyway, my prof joked about Lessig's rise from a "boring law professor from Standford" into Coolness: "He grew a little goatee and started wearing black!"
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Glad to hear you've got a class with a prof. you actually like :)
He should shake his head. It pains me to say it, because it's horribly dated.
In fact, during the activities fair my 1L year, I instantly endeared myself to the IPCLA president when I asked, "Do people really still use the term 'cyber' anymore? I thought that ended 5 years ago."
Odd that I was never contacted by them again...
On a side note, Judge Posner recently gave a lecture on cyberspace property rights to Second Life denizens as a cartoon character of himself. Check the end of the article. I'm gonna get around to blogging about that one of these days.
Oh man! Judge Posner? That's so bizarre.
Also: Although I think "Cyberspace" is incredibly cheesey, you gotta admit it has a little more spice than "Internet Law." Who knows, may "cyberspace" will come back into fashion.
http://xkcd.com/c181.html
or, again
Anonymous - love the link. Thanks.
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