Contesting Agriculture or Real Law Virtual Space

Contesting Agriculture: Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany

Author: Hans C Buechler

This analysis of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany captures the turbulent times after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of the two Germanies. Based in large part on oral histories provided by cooperative managers, newly independent family farmers, and westerners who established farms in the east, the authors examine the competitive struggle involved in the transformation from communism to capitalism. Linking the personal to the local, regional, national, and global, they develop a theory of the construction of identities out of past experiences and new challenges, in order to account for the ambiguities and contradictions inherent in the core relations and ideas that constitute the new Germany.

Author Biography: Hans C. Buechler is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University and Judith-Maria Buechler is Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Together they are the coeditors of Migrants in Europe: The Role of Family, Labor, and Politics.

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Real Law @ Virtual Space: Communication Regulation in Cyberspace

Author: Susan J Ed J Drucker

Legislators, service providers, consumers, and courts are grappling with the liability and free expression implications of technological developments. Through the process of litigation and legislation the principles of "cyberlaw" are emerging. The technology of communication challenges developments in speech, copyright and intellectual property, and obscenity, as well as sexual harassment and jurisdictional issues. This edited volume addresses existing law and explores the issues which will require legislative and judicial attention in the near future as the law develops and focuses on communicative rights and liabilities in the mediated realm of cyberspace.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Legal Geography: The Borders of Cyberlaw Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Overview	29
2	Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Intersection of Regulatory Principles and Technology	31
3	Frontiers and Legal Landscapes: As Safety Valves Open and Close	51
4	Freedom and Liability in Cyberspace: Media, Metaphors, and Paths of Regulation	71
5	Economics and the Internet: No Free Rides on the InfoBahn; The Information Superhighway Becomes a Toll Road	95
Pt. 2	Communications Decency Act	129
	Communications Decency Act: Editors' Comments	131
6	First Amendment Challenges to Restrictions on Internet Expression: Which Standard for Judicial Review?	137
7	The Old Rules May Not Apply Anymore: Technology Aversion, Virtual Communities, and the Need for Innovation in Evaluating Restrictions of Cyberspace	151
8	History and Decency: Overcoming the Threat of an Inside-Out Approach	167
9	Regulation of Indecency in Electronic Communication	183
Pt. 3	Property Interests	203
10	Copyright in a Digital World: Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace	205
11	Museums Without Walls: Property Rights and Reproduction in the World of Cyberspace	227
12	Rights of Attribution and Integrity in Online Communication	251
13	Identities, Commodities, and Information Flows: Intellectual Property Rights and the Construction of Emergent Electronic Social Spaces	267
14	Selling On, Not Out, the Internet	287
Pt. 4	Personal Liabilities	303
15	Cubby or Stratton Oakmont?: Defamatory Speech on Computer Bulletin Boards	305
16	Of Firewalls and Unlocked Doors: Expectations of Privacy	325
17	Commercial Speech in Cyberspace: The Junk E-mail Issue	349
18	Ethical Issues for a Virtual Self	371
19	Ethical and Legal Issues in E-mail Therapy	19
	Author Index	419
	Case Index	427
	Subject Index	431