Siva Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education, will begin a regular column in MSNBC.com’s Science and Technology section on Wed., Oct. 18. Vaidhyanathan, an expert on copyright and technology, will write about legal and business matters pertaining to the Internet. His first column is on YouTube’s sale to Google and its potential impact on consumers.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, will begin a regular column in MSNBC.com’s Science and Technology section on Wed., Oct. 18. Vaidhyanathan, an expert on copyright and technology, will write about legal and business matters pertaining to the Internet. His first column is on YouTube’s sale to Google and its potential impact on consumers. It may be read at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15405170/
Vaidhyanathan (www.sivacracy.net), a faculty member in Steinhardt’s Department of Culture and Communication, has written The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2005) and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (NYU Press, 2001).
He has also written for the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Magazine, Salon.com and The Nation on media and cultural issues and appeared on MSNBC, CNN and C-SPAN’s “Book TV.”