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!)
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://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/> 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://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> * *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>* *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press <https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture> *Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."* *Blockchain & Society* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com>* (crit. inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader) *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
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 1:03 PM, 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<https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/> 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://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)<https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6> Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press<https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture> Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy." Blockchain & Society<https://www.blockchainandsociety.com/> (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader) Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture<https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick) _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org
Yes, Congratulations Con! Best Sheldon Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D. Corporate Historian AT&T Archives and History Center AT&T 5 Reinman Road, Warren NJ 07059 sh3710@att.com<mailto:sh3710@att.com> From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> On Behalf Of Abbate, Janet via Members Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 PM To: sigcis <members@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!) 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 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto: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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFkEwSDb8$> was just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof. Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb! Please join me in congratulating Con!!! Best, Jeff * * * * * * Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture Research Professor, University of Minnesota Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFvjj7mNY$> Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFrXoAR6A$> Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFfDlbVi8$> Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy." Blockchain & Society<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.blockchainandsociety.com/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFHJHrdhc$> (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader) Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFf5sd3Oc$> Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick) _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cF_CXFWS0$> and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFnV8uEKg$>
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Best Sheldon Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D. Corporate Historian AT&T Archives and History Center AT&T 5 Reinman Road, Warren NJ 07059 sh3710@att.com<mailto:sh3710@att.com> From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org<mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org>> On Behalf Of Abbate, Janet via Members Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 PM To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@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!) 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<http://liberalarts.vt.edu/sts> Co-director, VT National Capital Region STS program Author, Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender On Jun 18, 2025, at 1:03 PM, Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org<mailto: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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFkEwSDb8$> was just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof. Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb! Please join me in congratulating Con!!! Best, Jeff * * * * * * Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture Research Professor, University of Minnesota Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFvjj7mNY$> Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFrXoAR6A$> Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFfDlbVi8$> Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy." 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Congratulations, Con! I'm looking forward to reading it! Liz _________________ Elizabeth Petrick Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 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
*Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D.*
Corporate Historian
AT&T Archives and History Center
*AT&T*
5 Reinman Road, Warren NJ 07059
sh3710@att.com
*From:* Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> *On Behalf Of *Abbate, Janet via Members *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 PM *To:* sigcis <members@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!)
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 1:03 PM, 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 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFkEwSDb8$> was just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof. Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!
Please join me in congratulating Con!!!
Best, Jeff
** * * * * **
*Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
*Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture*
*Research Professor, University of Minnesota*
*Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz) <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFvjj7mNY$> *
*Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFrXoAR6A$>*
*Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFfDlbVi8$> *Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)
*PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."*
*Blockchain & Society* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.blockchainandsociety.com/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFHJHrdhc$>* (crit. inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)
*Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFf5sd3Oc$> *Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
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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 _________________ Elizabeth Petrick Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 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
*Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D.*
Corporate Historian
AT&T Archives and History Center
*AT&T*
5 Reinman Road, Warren NJ 07059
sh3710@att.com
*From:* Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> *On Behalf Of *Abbate, Janet via Members *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 PM *To:* sigcis <members@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!)
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 1:03 PM, 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 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFkEwSDb8$> was just published (yesterday!) from Yale University Press. I had the pleasure of reading this fascinating and insightful book earlier this year, and the honor, along with distinguished colleagues Prof. Kevin Driscoll and Prof. Ken Alder, of contributing a blurb!
Please join me in congratulating Con!!!
Best, Jeff
** * * * * **
*Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. *
*Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture*
*Research Professor, University of Minnesota*
*Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz) <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFvjj7mNY$> *
*Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/amzn.to/3gqe4R6__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFrXoAR6A$>*
*Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture__;!!BhdT!jBPdA-HCHJHvvZLHRFaHxJ7ihrDBMMJpo5YoA6jRlEZkCjhsIWVYzq3YVRFerdWGhWhWEjMnO_cFfDlbVi8$> *Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)
*PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."*
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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. eCheers, Eileen Buckholtz On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM 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 <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/> 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://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> * *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>* *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press <https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture> *Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."* *Blockchain & Society* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com>* (crit. inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)
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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@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, ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization.
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM 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 <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* <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.blockchainandsociety.com__;!!KwNVnqRv!FC6CeEng24aA4hrwVJtQOIFUnkyOwpZyUwxsSDL3ft0NcbC9CvXWBPqCrzzqCsNWwT-4pYhtdug79Q1p1rCcL-cAbw$>* (crit. inq. essays & resources)* (Founder/Leader)
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Congrats on your promotion, Con! We'll deserved! "The infatuation with institutional neutrality is making cowardice into a policy" - MIchael Roth, President, Wesleyan University --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Business Analytics & Information Systems Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT 06518, USA Email: ramesh.subramanian@qu.edu Web: https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/ramesh-subramanian & Affiliated Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School New Haven, CT 06511, USA Email: ramesh.subramanian@yale.edu Web: https://www.law.yale.edu/ramesh-subramanian Recent book: Mobile Technology and Social Transformations<https://www.routledge.com/Mobile-Technology-and-Social-Transformations-Access-to-Knowledge-in-Global/Felsberger-Subramanian/p/book/9780367545246>, Routledge, UK (2021) ________________________________ From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Yost via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:03 PM To: sigcis <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [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!) CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. 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://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/> 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://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code> Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press)<https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6> Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press<https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture> Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz) PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy." Blockchain & Society<https://www.blockchainandsociety.com/> (crit. inq. essays & resources) (Founder/Leader) Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture<https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)
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