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@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
Congratulations, Con! I'm looking forward to reading it!

Liz
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Department of History
Rice University


On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM HOCHHEISER, SHELDON H via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

Yes, Congratulations Con!

Best

 

Sheldon

 

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AT&T Archives and History Center

 

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From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> On Behalf Of Abbate, Janet via Members
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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!)

 

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

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 Capital Region STS program

Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender



On Jun 18, 2025, at 1:03PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

 

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 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

 

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Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. 

Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture

Research Professor, University of Minnesota

        

PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."

Blockchain & Society (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader)

Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)

 

 

 

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