Using Digital Traces for User Profiling: the Uncertainty of Identity Toolset

People manage a spectrum of identities in cyber domains. Profiling individuals and assigning them to distinct groups or classes have potential applications in targeted services, online fraud detection, extensive social sorting, and cyber-security. This paper presents the Uncertainty of Identity Toolset, a framework for the identification and profiling of users from their social media accounts and e-mail addresses. More specifically, in this paper we discuss the design and implementation of two tools of the framework. The Twitter Geographic Profiler tool builds a map of the ethno-cultural communities of a person's friends on Twitter social media service. The E-mail Address Profiler tool identifies the probable identities of individuals from their e-mail addresses and maps their geographical distribution across the UK. To this end, this paper presents a framework for profiling the digital traces of individuals

Render copyright unto Caesar: on taking incentives seriously

Necker Jacques. Rapport de M. Necker, premier ministre des finances, sur l'état annuel des finances, lors de la séance du 24 septembre 1789. In: Archives Parlementaires de 1787 à 1860 - Première série (1787-1799) Tome IX - Du 16 septembre au 11 novembre 1789. Paris : Librairie Administrative P. Dupont, 1877. pp. 139-146

BlogForever D3.3: Development of the Digital Rights Management Policy

This report presents a set of recommended practices and approaches that a future BlogForever repository can use to develop a digital rights management policy. The report outlines core legal aspects of digital rights that might need consideration in developing policies, and what the challenges are, in particular, in relation to web archives and blog archives. These issues are discussed in the context of the digital information life cycle and steps that might be taken within the workflow of the BlogForever platform to facilitate the gathering and management of digital rights information. Further, the reports on interviews with experts in the field highlight current perspectives on rights management and provide empirical support for the recommendations that have been put forward

Copyright in Photographs in Canada since 2012

Photographs perform a unique function because they capture moments in time and that capture is contemporaneous with the subject of the photo: “[a] writer doesn’t necessarily have to be there to produce a story. A photographer, on the other hand, must be at the event when the event happens.” In 2012, the Copyright Modernization Act changed the Copyright Act in terms of application to photographs. This column will first discuss how copyright now applies to photographs in Canada (who owns copyright and how long it lasts) and then describe the new users’ right now available in respect of commissioned photographs

Legal Obstacles to Bringing the Twenty-first Century in the Classroom: Stop Being Creative, You May Already Be in Trouble

There are unimaginable benefits available if legal educators can bring the law classroom into the twenty-first century through the use of popular media and celebrities in their teaching. With the introduction of “pop culture,” the professor can permanently alter the student\u27s view of the course material. Bringing pop culture into the classroom will make the course material more relevant to our students’ lives outside the classroom. This will enhance both their willingness and their ability to master legal concepts. There are two major obstacles to bringing pop culture into the classroom. The initial major obstacle is the Copyright Act of 1976 (“Copyright Act”), which restricts the use of copyrighted material. Although the act allows a limited safe harbor for “multiple copies for classroom use.” Educators may find the safe harbor to be unduly restrictive. The other potential obstacle is that the use of celebrities in hypotheticals also gives rise to problems associated with the celebrities’ “right of publicity.” In order to utilize celebrities in the teaching process, the educator must ensure that the use does not constitute commercial speech. The sad fact is, that in order to effectively teach law, we need to overcome the restraints that law sometimes places on educational creativity

The cultural shaping of compassion

In this chapter, we first review the existing literature on cross-cultural studies on compassion. While cultural similarities exist, we demonstrate cultural differences in the conception, experience, and expression of compassion. Then we present our own work on the cultural shaping of compassion by introducing Affect Valuation Theory ( e.g., Tsai, Knutson, & Fung, 2006), our theoretical framework. We show how the desire to avoid feeling negative partly explains cultural differences in conceptualizations and expressions of compassion. Specifically, the more people want to avoid feeling negative, the more they focus on the positive (e.g., comforting memories) than the negative (e.g., the pain of someone\u27s death) when responding to others\u27 suffering, and the more they regard responses as helpful that focus on the positive (vs. negative). Finally, we discuss implications of our work for counseling, health care, and public service settings, as well as for interventions that aim to promote compassion