The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
By Giancarlo Frosio • March 10, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Recently, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided in Svensson et al v Retriever Sverige that links to authorized works freely available online do not infringe the E.U.-recognized exclusive right of communication to the public. The outcome accords with U.S. law and (so far) allows the Internet to continue to function. Read more » about Freedom of Linking in Europe?
By Miquel Peguera • March 6, 2014 at 3:06 pm
YouTube achieved yet another big win in Spain last January when a court of appeals in Madrid found it not liable of copyright infringement. The case is Telecinco v. YouTube, one that in many ways resembles the Viacom/YouTube litigation in the US. Read more » about Spain: YouTube Cannot be Enjoined to Prevent Future Copyright Infringing Uploads
By Ryan Calo • March 3, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Cyberlaw is the study of the intersection between law and the Internet. It should come as no surprise, then, that the defining questions of cyberlaw grew out of the Internet's unique characteristics. For instance: an insensitivity to distance led some courts to rethink the nature of jurisdiction. A tendency, perhaps hardwired, among individuals and institutions to think of "cyberspace" as an actual place generated a box of puzzles around the nature of property, privacy, and speech. Read more » about Robotics and the New Cyberlaw
By Ryan Calo • March 2, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Michael Froomkin, Ian Kerr, and I, along with a wonderful program committee of law scholars and roboticists, have for three years now put on a conference around law, policy, and robotics. “We Robot” returns to the University of Miami School of Law from Stanford Law School this year and boasts an extraordinary roster of authors, commentators, and participants. Folks like Jack Balkin, Ann Bartow, Kenneth Anderson, Woodrow Hartzog, Mary Anne Franks, Margot Kaminski, Kate Darling, and David Post, among many others. Not to mention a demo from a roboticist at the University of Washington whose lab built the surgical robot for the movie Ender’s Game. Read more » about Third Annual Robotics and Law Conference “We Robot”
By Jennifer Granick • February 24, 2014 at 6:00 am
The Internet is under threat, mostly from governments. We need companies to help people stand up to government threats, but companies cannot solve the problems for us. This is what I told the audience on Thursday, at an event co-hosted by CIS and the Program on Liberation Technology. Read more » about Government Threats To The Internet: Commentary on the Drummond Talk
By Giancarlo Frosio • February 14, 2014 at 3:39 am
Despite fierce opposition from civil society and industry, the Turkish parliament recently amended Law no. 5651, entitled “Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publications”. Read more » about Turkey Enlists Intermediaries to Censor and Surveil Internet Users
By Giancarlo Frosio • February 12, 2014 at 4:56 pm
The next meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab) will take place on Friday, February 14 at 11am in Room B13 at Stanford Law School. Read more » about Meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab with Dan Svantesson
By Omer Tene • February 12, 2014 at 11:29 am
Few people personify the field they work in as much as Christopher Kuner. As a lawyer, European-American, academic and professor, and longtime leader of the ICC, Kuner straddles the fault lines of the privacy world with ease. Read more » about Erecting a New Legal Edifice: Christopher Kuner on Transborder Data Flows
By Jennifer Granick • February 11, 2014 at 12:22 pm
Tomorrow, all five members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their recent report concluding that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of phone records under section 215 is illegal and ill-advised. Meanwhile, the PCLOB is gearing up to report in a few months its conclusions regarding mass surveillance of the content of Internet transactions under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act Read more » about Eight Questions On Mass Surveillance For The PCLOB
By Jennifer Granick • February 11, 2014 at 4:00 am
Today, Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society joins Greenpeace, Mozilla, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Libertarian Party, and an array of ideologically diverse groups in The Day We Fight Back against mass surveillance. Read more » about CIS & The Day We Fight Back
