Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown University Law Center

Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law & Technology

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20001

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1.

What Privacy Is For

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 126, 2013
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2012
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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privacy, surveillance, modulation, democracy, innovation, Big Data

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Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry

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Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry

California Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, 2001
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Feb 2000 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2012
Mark A. Lemley and Julie E. Cohen
Stanford Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry

California Law Review, Vol. 89, p. 1, 2001
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Sep 2001
Mark A. Lemley and Julie E. Cohen
Stanford Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at "Copyright Management" in Cyberspace

28 Conn. L. Rev 981 (1996)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Aug 1997
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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Fair Use Infrastructure for Copyright Management Systems

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Fair Use Infrastructure for Copyright Management Systems

Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 239731
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Sep 2000
Dan L. Burk and Julie E. Cohen
University of California, Irvine School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, rights management systems, fair use, technical measures, key escrow, trusted third party

Fair Use Infrastructure for Copyright Management Systems

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 15, pp. 41-83, 2001, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 239731
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Aug 2007
Dan L. Burk and Julie E. Cohen
University of California, Irvine School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, rights management systems, fair use, technical measures, key escrow, trusted third party

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Turning Privacy Inside Out

Theoretical Inquiries in Law 20.1 (2019 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 02 May 2018
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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Privacy, Surveillance, Privacy by Design, Notice and Choice, GDPR

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Creativity and Culture in Copyright Theory

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, pp. 1151-1205, 2007, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 929527
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, creativity, culture, public domain

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Copyright, Commodification, and Culture: Locating the Public Domain

THE FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, L. Guibault & P.B. Hugenholtz, eds., pp. 121-166, Kluwer Law International, 2006, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 663652
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Feb 2005
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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Copyright, public domain, commodification, culture, creativity

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The Surveillance-Innovation Complex: The Irony of the Participatory Turn

In Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne & Tamar Tembeck, eds., The Participatory Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2015, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2015
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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surveillance, privacy, innovation, participation, gamification, open access, deep capture

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Law for the Platform Economy

UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2017
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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platforms, data, algorithms, information, intermediation, institutions

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DRM and Privacy

Berkeley Technological Law Journal, Vol. 18, p. 575-617, 2003, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 372741
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Jan 2003 Last Revised: 12 May 2014
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, digital rights management, privacy

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The Place of the User in Copyright Law

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 74, pp. 347-374, 2005, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 814664
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Oct 2005
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, private copying, secondary liability, fair use, public domain, user

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The Regulatory State in the Information Age

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 17, no. 2 (2016 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Jan 2016
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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regulation, information, platform, systemic risk, systemic threat, infoglut, compliance, audit, standards

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Cyberspace As/And Space

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 1, pp. 210-256, Jan. 2007, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 898260
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 26 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2008
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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cyberspace, space, geography, network geography, heterotopia, embodied, power

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The Biopolitical Public Domain: The Legal Construction of the Surveillance Economy

Philosophy & Technology (2017), doi: 10.1007/s13347-017-0258-2
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2017
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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privacy, surveillance, data, public domain, innovation, biopolitics, postcolonialism

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Surveillance vs. Privacy: Effects and Implications

Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law, eds. David Gray & Stephen E. Henderson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 455-69
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Aug 2018
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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Surveillance, Privacy

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From Lex Informatica to the Control Revolution

Forthcoming, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 36, no. 3, 2022
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 May 2021 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2022
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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code, institutions, organizations, surveillance, privacy, content moderation, CDA 230, First Amendment

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Privacy, Visibility, Transparency, and Exposure

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 75, No. 1, 2008, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 1012068
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Sep 2007
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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privacy, surveillance, exposure

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Information Privacy Law Scholars' Brief in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2656482, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-27, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2656482, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-32, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-32
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2015
Julie E. Cohen, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, William McGeveran, Paul Ohm, Joel R. Reidenberg, Neil M. Richards, David Thaw and Lauren E. Willis
Georgetown University Law Center, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Fordham University School of Law, Washington University School of Law, University of Pittsburgh - School of Law and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
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Article III standing, injury, harm, privacy, Fair Credit Reporting Act, FCRA, data brokers, modern hiring practices, consumer reporting, inaccuracy, background checks

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Lochner in Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy of 'Rights Management'

Number of pages: 121 Posted: 25 Sep 1998
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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Property and the Construction of the Information Economy: A Neo-Polanyian Ontology

Leah Lievrouw & Brian Loader, eds., Handbook of Digital Media and Communication (Routledge, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Jun 2017
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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information, intellectual property, data, platforms, commons

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Pervasively Distributed Copyright Enforcement

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 95, 2006, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 892623
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Apr 2006
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, DRM, TPM, DMCA, discipline, protocol, crisis

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Copyright as Property in the Post-Industrial Economy: A Research Agenda

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2011, 2011, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-25
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2011
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, property, authors, culture

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Internet Utopianism and the Practical Inevitability of Law

Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2019
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Nov 2019
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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cyberspace, cyberlaw, utopianism, Barlow, fundamental rights, human rights

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Copyright and the Perfect Curve

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Sep 2000
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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Property as Institutions for Resources: Lessons from and for IP

Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 1-57 (2015)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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Property, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Patent

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The Zombie First Amendment

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2015
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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first amendment, copyright, information privacy, interdiction, neoliberalism

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Chapter 1 - Introduction: Imagining the Networked Information Society

Julie E. Cohen, CONFIGURING THE NETWORKED SELF: LAW, CODE, AND THE PLAY OF EVERYDAY PRACTICE, Yale University Press, January 2012, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 11-121
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, intellectual property, trade secrecy, privacy, information privacy, Internet, cyberspace, governance, liberalism, liberal individualism

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Tailoring Election Regulation: The Platform Is the Frame

4 Geo. Tech. L. Rev. (2020 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Apr 2020
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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platform, intermediation, First Amendment, election regulation, electioneering, manipulation, autonomy, factionalism, authoritarianism

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Infrastructuring the Digital Public Sphere

25 Yale J.L. & Tech. (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 May 2023
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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platform, content governance, content moderation, public sphere, SDK, optimization

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Networks, Standards, and Network-and-Standard-Based Governance

Kevin Werbach, ed., After the Digital Tornado (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Mar 2019
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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networks, standards, institutions, governance, trade, transnational law, platforms, internet

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Affording Fundamental Rights

4:1 Critical Analysis of Law (2017)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Mar 2017
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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The Emergent Limbic Media System

Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency, eds. Mireille Hildebrandt & Kieron O'Hara (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Apr 2019
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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media, platforms, information, cascades, polarization, reputation, surveillance, microtargeting

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Information Privacy Litigation as Bellwether for Institutional Change

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 2
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Sep 2016
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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information, privacy, information privacy, data security, identity theft, class actions, cy pres, litigation, aggregate litigation, standing

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Overcoming Property

Journal of Law, Technology and Policy, Vol. 2002, pp. 375-83, 2002
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 23 Aug 2007
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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copyright, property, privacy

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Doughnut Privacy: A Preliminary Thought Experiment

Beate Rossler & Valerie Steeves, eds., Being Human in the Digital World (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Mar 2023
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center
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privacy, surveillance, sustainability

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Copyright & Privacy - Through the Privacy Lens

4 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 273 (2005)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Jun 2017
Julie E. Cohen, David E. Sorkin and Peter Swire
Georgetown University Law Center, The John Marshall Law School and Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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Privacy, First Amendment, Surveillance, Intellectual Property, Internet Law

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Between Truth and Power

Mireille Hildebrandt & Bibi van den Berg, eds., Freedom and Property of Information: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology, Routledge, 2014, Forthcoming
Posted: 29 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2019
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center

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Code, Power, Copyright, Takedown, Privacy, Data Protection, Modulation, Interdiction, Human Flourishing, Information

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Normal Discipline in the Age of Crisis

Georgetown University Law Center, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 572486
Posted: 04 Aug 2004
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center

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Copyright, DRM, privacy, discipline, surveillance, crisis

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Examined Lives: Informational Privacy and the Subject as Object

Posted: 15 Aug 2000
Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown University Law Center

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privacy, data privacy, information privacy