[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!)

Thu Jun 19 14:03:28 PDT 2025

Con,
 Congratulations on your well-deserved promotion, becoming the Chair, and
on the new book.  Good for you for not acting digitally but instead showing
that good news comes in threes!
And thank you for giving me a new, timely book to read.

Stay sane,

Jonathan

Jonathan Coopersmith
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Professor Emeritus
Department of History
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX  77843-4236
979.739.4708 (cell)

with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken.  Historians As Policy
Professionals*,” AHA Perspectives* May 2025, 18-20.

"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990,"  in Brian C.
Odom, ed., *The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to
Present* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM Eileen Buckholtz via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Congratulations Con on your promotion and the exciting new book. Back in
> 1998 while I was a Brookings Fellow for Sen John Kerry I had the
> opportunity to give input to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A lot
> has evolved since then. eCheers,
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> Congratulations Con on your promotion and the exciting new book.  Back in
> 1998 while I was a Brookings Fellow for Sen John Kerry I had the
> opportunity to give input to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.  A lot
> has evolved since then.
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> eCheers,
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> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM Jeffrey Yost via Members <
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>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> 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/__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rDhmGzdXQ$> was
>> just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure
>> of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the
>> honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof.
>> Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!
>>
>> Please join me in congratulating Con!!!
>>
>> Best, Jeff
>>
>> **   *   *   *   *   **
>> *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
>> *Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture*
>> *Research Professor, University of Minnesota*
>>
>> *Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns
>> Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rCsRJb_Dw$> *
>> *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rDNmAED8A$>*
>> *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rBMfUk0cw$> *Co-Editor
>> (w/ Con Diaz)
>> *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives,
>> Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."*
>> *Blockchain & Society*
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>> inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)
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>> *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture
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