Professor Derek Bambauer teaches Internet law and intellectual property at Brooklyn Law School. A former principal systems engineer at Lotus Development Corp. (part of IBM), Bambauer spent two years as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. At Berkman, he was a member of the OpenNet Initiative, an academic consortium that tests and studies Internet censorship in countries such as China, Iran, and Vietnam. Bambauer has published articles on intellectual property (in the Alabama Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and Information Technology and International Development), information control (in the Colorado Law Review and Legal Affairs), cyberlaw (in the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology), and health law (in Archives of Neurology). He has also written technical articles on data recovery and fault tolerance, and on deployment of software upgrades. He has presented on issues that include spam and Internet filtering in both technical and policy settings, including presenting on model laws for spam regulation at the Cybersecurity Meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society, and on China's on-line controls before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Chronology
What Ifs and Other Alternative Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Storie (Moderator), Fourth Annual Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program Symposium, Michigan State University College of Law, March 30-31 (2007)
Faulty Math: Analyzing Copyright's Economic Calculus for Derivative Works (Invited speaker), Fourth Annual Intellectual Property & Communications Law and Policy Scholars Roundtable, Michigan State University College of Law, Jan. 28-29 (2007)
Faulty Math: The Economics of Legalizing "The Grey Album", 59 Ala. L. Rev. 345 (2007)
From an economic perspective, giving copyright holders the right to control production of derivative works—works...
Digital Development: Free Speech, the Internet, and Cyber-Censorship (Invited speaker), Department of State Webchat (2006)
Cool Tools for Tyrants, Legal Affairs (2006)
Law and Technology
The Hacker's Aegis (with Oliver Day), ExpressO (2010)
Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users at risk....
Information Law
Guiding the Censor’s Scissors: A Framework to Assess Internet Filtering, ExpressO (2008)
While China’s Internet censorship receives considerable attention, censorship in the United States and other democratic...
Intellectual Property Law
The Hacker's Aegis (with Oliver Day), ExpressO (2010)
Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users at risk....
Law and Society
The Hacker's Aegis (with Oliver Day), ExpressO (2010)
Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users at risk....
Torts
The Hacker's Aegis (with Oliver Day), ExpressO (2010)
Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users at risk....
Science and Technology
The Hacker's Aegis (with Oliver Day), ExpressO (2010)
Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users at risk....
Communications Law
The Hacker's Aegis (with Oliver Day), ExpressO (2010)
Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users at risk....
Computer Law
The Hacker's Aegis (with Oliver Day), ExpressO (2010)
Intellectual property law stifles critical research on software security vulnerabilities, placing computer users at risk....