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.
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
Barbara van Schewick is an Associate Professor of Law and Helen L. Read more » about Barbara van Schewick
Marvin Ammori is a leading First Amendment lawyer and Internet policy expert. He was instrumental to the adoption of network neutrality rules in the US and abroad–having been perhaps the nation’s leading legal advocate advancing network neutrality–and also instrumental to the defeat of the SOPA and PIPA copyright/censorship bills. Read more » about Marvin Ammori
Brett Frischmann’s expertise is in intellectual property and internet law. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University Chicago law faculty in 2002. He has held visiting appointments at Cornell and Fordham. Read more » about Brett Frischmann
Brandy Karl is an intellectual property lawyer with a focus on copyright, telecommunications, Internet, and technology policy. She is a Non-Residential Fellow at CIS and is currently an LLM student at Georgetown University Law Center studying the intersection of international trade issues, intellectual property, and internet regulation. She volunteers her extra time at the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis. Read more » about Brandy Karl
By Brett Frischmann • May 3, 2012 at 8:35 am
Last week, Concurring Opinions hosted a symposium on my book. Here are links to the posts:
Frank Pasquale’s Introduction to the Infrastructure Symposium:
Deven Desai, Education and Infrastructure: Read more » about Commentary on Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
By Bruce B. Cahan • May 2, 2012 at 2:49 am
Lately, I have been puzzled by the proliferation of bank-mobile operator partnerships in the developed and emerging countries. The mobile carriers provide the remittance or payments instructions, and the banks move the money, conduct the foreign exchange (e.g., into/out of U.S. Dollars) and deliver the cash or credit to the intended recipient.
Are the banks really necessary in this money transfer process? No, they are not, and have not been for years - try over a hundred years! Read more » about When Mobile Telecommunications Routes Become Banks
By Brett Frischmann • April 19, 2012 at 10:31 am
April 25-26: Concurring Opinions will host a symposium on my book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources. Needless to say, I am excited and anxious, and I hope you’ll join in the conversation. I'll be sure to cross-post here as well. Read more » about Next week: Concurring Opinions will host a blog symposium on Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
By Jennifer Granick • April 12, 2012 at 12:46 pm
The House Judiciary Committee is considering a bill (.pdf) to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030. Read more » about Draft Bill to "Fix" CFAA Won't
Is Your ISP Becoming A Copyright Cop? Opening Plenary Session/Keynote
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CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori will be participating in the panel "Can Our Patent System Support (or Survive) the DIY Movement?" Read more » about Tinkering With Tomorrow
The Symposium, co-sponsored by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, took place on Friday, February 10, 2012. Scholars and noted practitioners from across the country joined STLR to discuss current and emerging issues in First Amendment law and the Internet. Read more » about Stanford Technology Law Review Symposium 2012 - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age
May 7, 2012
In July 2012, several major internet access providers (including, very likely, yours) will roll out a new program supposedly intended to inhibit online infringement via peer top peer file-sharing networks. The program is a result of a deal, announced last year, between ISPs and big content providers to work together police online infringement, educate allegedly infringing subscribers and, if subscribers resist such education, take various steps including restricting their internet access. As always, the devil is in the details, and the details here are devilish indeed. EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry outlined how the program will work and explained why subscribers might want to demand a reboot. Read more » about Is Your ISP Becoming A Copyright Cop? The Graduated Response Program and "Voluntary" Efforts to Police Online Infringement
April 23, 2012
An evening conversation with CIS Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone and Congressman Darrell Issa where they will discuss topics about SOPA, PIPA and internet freedom. Read more » about SOPA, PIPA and Internet Freedom - Where Do We Go From Here? Audio
April 23, 2012
An evening conversation with CIS Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone and Congressman Darrell Issa where they will discuss topics about SOPA, PIPA and internet freedom. Read more » about SOPA, PIPA and Internet Freedom - Where Do We Go From Here? Video
March 26, 2012
Keynote talk by Andrew McLaughlin (CIS Non-Residential Fellow) at the 2012 Library Technology Conference held at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (March 14, 2012). Read more » about Fight for the Future: Libraries, Tech Policy, and the Fate of Human Knowledge
