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Post on Zittrain & Post on Generativity

By Lawrence Solum

David G. Post (Temple University School of Law) has posted The Theory of Generativity (Fordham Law Review Vol. 78, No. 6, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This paper was written in response to a request from the editors of the Fordham Law Review, who were organizing a symposium (held in Dec. 2009) focused on my book (In Search of Jefferson?s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace) and Jonathan Zittrain?s (The Future of the Internet ? And How to Stop It). Zittrain and I often joked, while were working on our respective books, that we were actually preparing different versions of the same book, and though it was just a joke, as it turns out there was something to it. In this essay, I describe the ways in which In Search of . . . is really all about ?generativity? (though the term doesn?t appear therein), and the ways in which The Future of . . . has more Jefferson in it than might be apparent at first glance.

Recommended.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).