July 29 – Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Professor Doris Estelle Long authored column:
“If history provides any useful lessons, not surprisingly, a new set of tools developed to support Middle Eastern freedom fighters may transform today’s largely territorially grounded Internet into a truly vibrant cyberspace — and the latest enforcement headaches for trademark and copyright owners. Between the mobile “shadow Internet” equipment reportedly being provided Middle Eastern rebels by the U.S. government and a new domain name registry that promises to eliminate the monopoly of earlier Internet protocols, we may be witnessing the birth pangs of “Internet 4.0.” Beyond the collaboration of Internet 2.0 and the “cloud” of Internet 3.0 may lie a new digital network that has the promise of becoming a truly borderless communications media.”
