[SIGCIS-Members] New Book from CBI Research Fellow Prof. Gerardo Con Díaz --Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the Online World (AND Con was promoted to Full Prof. & became Chair!)

Wed Jun 18 11:53:51 PDT 2025

The importance of the work Con has done, now with this second book, is more
important than when he started on this line of research, largely because of
the role current AI tools are playing.  In short, we now have to acquire a
new literacy as students of AI, information, software and IT in general:
understanding the role and wise uses of intellectual capital laws,
practices, and regulations.  That's the bad news, more work for all of us
regardless of what we like to write about.  The good news is that Con is
unveiling nice chunks of what we need to learn.  I hope he continues down
that path because there is more to say and I can't think of a more
qualified historian to do that than our Con. Jim

On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Elizabeth Petrick via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Congratulations, Con! I'm looking forward to reading it!
>
> Liz
> _________________
> Elizabeth Petrick
> Associate Professor
> Director of Graduate Studies
> Department of History
> Rice University
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> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM HOCHHEISER, SHELDON H via Members <
> members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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>> Yes, Congratulations Con!
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>> Best
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>> Sheldon
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>> *Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D.*
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>> Corporate Historian
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>> AT&T Archives and History Center
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>> *AT&T*
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>> 5 Reinman Road, Warren NJ 07059
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>> sh3710 at att.com
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>> *From:* Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> *On Behalf Of *Abbate,
>> Janet via Members
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 PM
>> *To:* sigcis <members at sigcis.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [SIGCIS-Members] New Book from CBI Research Fellow Prof.
>> Gerardo Con Díaz --Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright Made the
>> Online World (AND Con was promoted to Full Prof. & became Chair!)
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>> Congratulations, Con, so well deserved! I look forward to assigning
>> Everyone Breaks These Laws to my students. best, Janet Dr. Janet Abbate
>> Professor, Science, Technology and Society Virginia Tech liberalarts. vt. edu/sts
>> Co-director, VT National
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>> Congratulations, Con, so well deserved! I look forward to assigning
>> Everyone Breaks These Laws to my students.
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>> best,
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>> Janet
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>> Dr. Janet Abbate
>> Professor, Science, Technology and Society
>> Virginia Tech
>> liberalarts.vt.edu/sts
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>> Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program
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>> Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender
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>> On Jun 18, 2025, at 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <
>> members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues,
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>> I want to share the tremendous news that CBI Research Fellow (& dear
>> friend & close collaborator) Professor Gerardo Con Díaz has recently
>> been promoted to Full Professor and just became the Chair of Science and
>> Technology Studies at UC, Davis!
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>> Additionally, his new book Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyright
>> Made the Online World
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFkEwSDb8$> was
>> just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure
>> of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the
>> honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof.
>> Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!
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>> Please join me in congratulating Con!!!
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>> Best, Jeff
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>> **   *   *   *   *   **
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>> *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
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>> *Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture*
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>> *Research Professor, University of Minnesota*
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>> *Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns
>> Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFvjj7mNY$> *
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>> *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFrXoAR6A$>*
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>> *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFfDlbVi8$> *Co-Editor
>> (w/ Con Diaz)
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>> *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives,
>> Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."*
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>> *Blockchain & Society*
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.blockchainandsociety.com/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFHJHrdhc$>* (crit.
>> inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)
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>> *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFf5sd3Oc$> *Co-Editor-in-Chief
>> (w/ Amanda Wick)
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