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Consumer robotics and Ryan Calo, director of Robotics at CIS, profiled in this SF gate article.

Technical manuals and popular fiction helped thrust robots into the popular imagination in the late 1970s, cast in the twin archetypes of mechanical monsters or tin sidekicks.

But for technical, financial and other reasons, the grand promise - or grave threat - of the rise of robots never came to pass. (We're still waiting on our jetpacks, too.) Read more » about Robots on the Rise

Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project at CIS, discusses the effect of the Video Privacy Protection Act on the Facebook/Netflix deal.

Listen to this American Public Media Marketplace story. Read more » about Netflix, Facebook and the law

Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project, spoke in the Personalization and Privacy panel at the 2011 Personalization Summit. Watch the full panel video below.

Video streaming by Ustream Read more » about Video: Ryan Calo - Personalization and Privacy

CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori spoke at TEDxUofM about freedom of speech in his talk "Why Internet Policy Matters."

TEDxUofM took place April 8th, 2011 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Read more » about Video: Marvin Ammori - Why Internet Policy Matters

Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project and a Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, is quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education in its story "Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights."
 

When Lawrence Golan picks up his baton here at the University of Denver, the musicians in his student orchestra see a genial conductor who corrects their mistakes without raising his voice in frustration. Read more » about Supreme Court Takes Up Scholars' Rights

Tim Wu presented his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires at Stanford Law School on May 9, 2011. Read more » about Video: Tim Wu - The Master Switch

Codex announced they are accepting applications for a Resident Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Deadline is May 27, 2011. More details about the fellowship are below.

Codex – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics is accepting applications for a Resident Fellowship for the 2011-12 academic year. Read more » about Codex Resident Fellowship

Andrew McLaughlin, until recently the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, is joining the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society as a non-residential fellow. Read more » about Andrew McLaughlin to Join Stanford Law School's Center for Internet & Society

On April 21, 2011, YouTube invited the public to ask our CIS Fair Use experts questions regarding fair use.

Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, and Julie Ahrens, Associate Director of the Fair Use Project, answer a selection of questions in this YouTube video.

Made in India, a film in the Fair Use Project's Documentary Film Program, will be screened on Friday May 6 at the Tribeca Theater in New York. Book your tickets through the New York Indian Film Festival.

Read more » about Made in India @ New York Indian Film Festival - May 6

Updated May 3, 2011

Updated April 21, 2011

The call for questions is now closed. Check back on May 2 when Anthony Falzone and Julie Ahrens will answer a selection of questions about Fair Use in a video in our Youtube channel. Read more » about Mashups, parodies and lip dubs: Ask a legal expert about Fair Use

The Robot Block Party ends at 7pm PST today. Everyone is invited to this free event.

More info about this event can be found here.

Check out more photos of the party.

Read more » about Robot Block Party at Stanford University

Download and watch Richard Stallman's speech recorded on April 11, 2011.

The video is only available in Ogg Vorbis format.
We recommend the free VLC media player. Read more » about Video: Richard Stallman - A Free Digital Society - What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad?

Seeking Happily Ever After, a film in the Fair Use Project's Documentary Film Program, will be screened on Tuesday April 26 at 7pm at the Women's Community Center in Stanford, CA. This brand new feature-length documentary discusses the growing population of single 30-somethings in the US. More women are delaying marriage or choosing alternatives to marriage - this film explores why and what it means to be a 30-something woman today! Read more » about Seeking Happily Ever After - Free Screening