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A first-person account of the fight to preserve First Amendment rights in the digital age. Lawyer and writer Mike Godwin has been at the forefront of the struggle to preserve freedom of speech on the Internet.
Jun 23, 1998 · Cyber Rights : Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age Hardcover – June 23, 1998 by Mike Godwin (Author) 3.7 4 ratings See all formats and editions
Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age is a non-fiction book about cyberlaw, written by free speech lawyer Mike Godwin. It was first published in 1998 by Times Books. [1]
In doing so, he frames nicely some of the issues raised by the encounter of the 200-year-old Bill of Rights and the cutting-edge Internet. But through much of his book Godwin sounds defensive, and ...
Mike Godwin is a twenty-first-century crusader for free speech. As online counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Godwin is often the one who gets the first panicked calls from Internet bulletin board operators or private citizens when their apartments are searched and computers seized.
In CYBER RIGHTS, one of the first lawyers to "live and work in cyberspace", Mike Godwin uses his extensive personal and professional experiences on the Net as a backdrop for discussing questions that have an impact on every online traveler who speaks on the Net. Subtitled DEFENDING FREE SPEECH IN THE DIGITAL AGE, this book is a timely exploration of the complex issues surrounding free speech as well as the right to privacy. Godwin was the first staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier ...
4.04. 23 ratings2 reviews. An analysis of the issues of free speech and the right to privacy on the Internet, written by a lawyer frequently involved in such cases, addresses such topics as copyright infringement, hate speech, pornography, and sexual harassment. 25,000 first printing. Genres Nonfiction. 333 pages, Hardcover.
