Stanford Center for Internet and Society

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the District Court decision in MGM v. Grokster, ruling that distributors of peer-to-peer file-sharing programs that use certain decentralized network designs may not be held contributorily or vicariously liable for copyright infringements by users. CIS is co-counsel for Grokster with Michael Page and Mark Lemley at the San Francisco firm of Keker & Van Nest

July 28, 2004, Black Hat Briefings, Las Vegas: Legal Liability and Security Incident Investigation.

August 1, 2004: PC World on Black Hat Briefings talk.

May 25, 2004, AusCERT, Brisbane, Australia: Legal Liability and Security Incident Investigation

June 10, 2004: Syracuse Post-Standard on Upstate New Yorkers enjoying wi-fi hot spots.

June 10, 2004: Syracuse Post-Standard on Upstate New Yorkers enjoying wi-fi hot spots.

July 11, 2004: Courier-Journal on 11th Circuit ruling against DirecTV.

August 6, 2004: SecurityFocus on the legalities of wardriving.

Salon.com has an article about Robert Greenwald's Outfoxed.

Thanks to the excellent work of lawyers at Wheeler, Trigg & Kennedy, we’ve now convinced the court of the importance of discovery to demonstrate the actual harms caused by “restored” copyrights. The task before us now is to gather and develop facts about how people used the works affected by copyright restoration before Congress passed the URAA and how they are harmed by the inability to use these works now. To help us collect these stories, we've launched a wiki-style tool. Check out this new site built by Aaron Swartz and please share your story and spread the word to others so they can share theirs.