Adam Marcus

I set up my first homepage some time in 1994. It didn't look that different than this. Back then, a homepage was basically a list of links. Today, with all the different Internet "presences" we have, this homepage is still mainly a list of links. But instead of links to random websites I think are cool, it contains links to all the various social networking, photo sharing, etc. websites I have accounts on as well as a few of my writings that aren't available elsewhere online.

Online presences

• My blog - Not updated as often as it should be
• LinkedIn
• MySpace
• Friendster
• Facebook (if that link doesn't work, try this one)
• Meetup.com
• Orkut
• Flickr
• AIM (Nothing there but my AIM ID)
• Yahoo 360 (Nothing there but my Yahoo Messenger ID)

Current stuff

• I just completed law school and am looking for work as a policy researcher/analyst in the areas of telecommunications, media, and/or copyright. I live in the Washington, DC area. Here's my resume. I have a number of writing samples below.
• I also maintain the websites for IP Justice and Distributed Computing Industry Association

Quick educational and work history

• I recently completed law school at Santa Clara University. Quick aside: Why do organizations see Wikipedia as just another place to advertise? I created a page for the law school on Wikipedia before one existed. I added information I thought would be helpful to new law students (see original version here). Then I go and check on it a few months later and find that the school has removed everything I did and put basically the same content that's on the school's own website. Maybe they didn't like the fact that I had links to photos from parties at which drinking was involved.
• During the summer of 2006, I attended in George Washington University's Munich Intellectual Property Law Summer Program
• I received a MA in Communications, Culture & Technology from Georgetown University in 2003
• I received a BA in English from the University of Florida in 1997
• During my first summer at law school I was an intern for Commissioner Susan Kennedy at the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco. Susan is now Chief of Staff for Governor Schwarzenegger.
• Before starting at SCU, I worked as a technical writer on the CDC's NHANES project
• During the summer of 2002, I spent 6 weeks in the Bahamas as a volunteer for the OAS STEP program. Ironically, there isn't much info about the program on the Web, but basically the program trades room and board for computer training.
• Before starting at Georgetown, I spent 4 years at Citrix as a technical writer

Articles, Reports and Papers

• Change That Tune: A Payola Education Guide for Musicians and Citizens - A report I wrote for the Future of Music Coalition
• The Future of the Entertainment Industry - Paper on the impending death of DRM I wrote for a class on Legal Issues of the 21st Century taught by David D. Friedman. 30 pages. Completed 5/17/07
• During my last semester of law school, I was a student researcher for Professor Allen Hammond and helped with a report he did for the FCC, entitled "The Impact of the FCC's TV Duopoly Rule Relaxation on Minority and Women Owned Broadcast Stations 1999-2006".
• Technical Background on the Net Neutrality Debate - Article I wrote for Tech LawForum, a website sponsored by the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University. 10 pages. Completed 3/19/07
• Media Diversity and Substitutability: Problems With the FCC's Diversity Index - Article published in Volume 3 Issue 1 of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. 38 pages. Completed 1/31/07. I filed an earlier version of this article as a comment with the FCC, and it was later criticized by the National Association of Broadcasters in their reply comments.
• Which is the Right Broadband Path: Municipalization or Privatization? - Paper I wrote for a Mass Communications class. 39 pages. Completed 12/1/2006
• DRM or Spyware: Did Sony Go Too Far? - Paper I wrote for a class on Technical Protection of Authors Rights at the GWU Munich program. 11 pages. Completed 8/11/2006
• Mash-Ups: A Collision of Creativity and the Law - Paper I wrote for a New Media Law class. 19 pages. Completed 5/19/06
• International Copyright Considerations for Online Music Stores - Paper I wrote for an International IP Treaties class. 15 pages. Completed 7/05
• The Celestial Jukebox Revisited: Best Practices and Copyright Law Revisions for Subscription-Based Online Music Services (Revised Version) - I updated and slimmed down my Masters thesis for presentation at the 31st annual TPRC. 32 pages. Completed 8/31/2003
• The Celestial Jukebox Revisited: Best Practices and Copyright Law Revisions for Subscription-Based Online Music Services - My Masters thesis, which received distinction. 47 pages. Completed 4/28/03
• Music Consumption Choices For American Teens - Technology assessment of music consumption technologies from the viewpoint of American teens. 21 pages. Completed 12/20/2001
• Intellectual Property and Broadcast Regulation Regimes: A Comparison - Comparison of Copyright laws and broadcast regulations. 23 pages. Completed 12/16/2002
• Effects of Consolidation on Radio Station Format Diversity Since Passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act - 12 pages. Completed 12/16/2002
• Radio Deregulation: Has It Served Citizens and Musicians? - I helped with research for this study produced by the Future of Music Coalition. 147 pages. Released 11/18/02
• Public Interest Pirates: The History of the Micropower Radio Movement - 25 pages. Completed 5/16/2002
• Adoption Scenarios for Digital Terrestrial Radio in the United States - 21 pages. Completed 5/6/2002
• Digital Rights Management: The Promise and the Reality - Privacy implications of two digital rights management technologies: SDMI and Microsoft Windows Media. 10 pages. Completed 12/21/2001
• Short legal writing sample - This is a revised version of an assignment I did for my Legal Research and Writing Class at Santa Clara University. 9 pages. Completed 2/6/05

Technical writing samples

• Citrix ICA DOS Client Guide - One of the last pieces I worked on at Citrix.
• General Computer Usage - Something I wrote back in 1994 for some classes that the VAX Unlimited computer club was doing at the University of Florida.