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.
Copyright and Fair Use
A healthy copyright system must balance the need to provide strong economic incentives through exclusive rights with the need to protect important public interests like free speech and expression. Fair use is foundational to that balance. It's role is to prevent copyright from stifling the creativity it is supposed to foster, and from imposing other burdens that would inhibit rather than promote the creation and spread of knowledge and learning.
The Fair Use Project (FUP) was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom and protect important public rights. It is the only organization in the country dedicated specifically to providing free and comprehensive legal representation to authors, filmmakers, artists, musicians and other content creators who face unmerited copyright claims, or other improper restrictions on their expressive interests. The FUP has litigated important cases across the country, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, and worked with scores of filmmakers and other content creators to secure the unimpeded release of their work.
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Non-Residential Fellow
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Brett Frischmann
Affiliate ScholarBrett 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
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Lauren Gelman
Non-Residential FellowLauren is an experienced attorney, frequent speaker and start-up advisor who has worked in the field of Internet law and policy since 1995. She is the founder of BlurryEdge Strategies, a legal and strategy consulting firm located in San Francisco that advises technology companies and investors on cutting-edge legal issues. Lauren previously led the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and taught at the Law School and the Department of Engineering. Read more » about Lauren Gelman
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Jennifer Granick
Director of Civil LibertiesJennifer Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Jennifer returns to Stanford after stints as General Counsel of entertainment company Worldstar Hip Hop and as counsel with the internet boutique firm of Zwillgen PLLC. Before that, she was the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Jennifer practices, speaks and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, consumer privacy, data protection, copyright, trademark and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read more » about Jennifer Granick
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Plaintiff's summary judgment motion
By Colette Vogele • April 27, 2005 at 3:24 pm
In February, Plaintiffs filed a summary judgment motion on the Copyright Clause claim. The motion has been fully briefed. Here is the Government's opposition, and Plaintiff's replybriefs. Read more » about Plaintiff's summary judgment motion
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RAM Caching (1): the nature of the problem
By Yuko Noguchi • April 20, 2005 at 5:44 am
文化庁が発表した「著作権法に関する今後の検討課題」のうち、まずは2.デジタル対応の(1)デジタル化時代に対応した権利制限の見直しについてみてみましょう。
検討課題は、「キャッシング等通信過程の効率化を目的とする複製、機器内で不可避的に生じる一時的な蓄積(複製)、機器の保守・修理に伴う複製等について、権利制限を拡大することに関して検討する。」としています。
これに対応して、文化審議会著作権分科会では、ワーキングチームを立ち上げて検討を始めました。 Read more » about RAM Caching (1): the nature of the problem
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Current Main Writing Projects
By Elizabeth Townsend Gard • January 17, 2005 at 2:29 am
Book-length projects
The Making of the Great War Generation (in progress)
A comparative biography reexamining the meaning of generation, with particular attention paid to gender and those not generally included in the canonized literature (although the canonized writers are very much part of the project.) Individuals discussed include Vera Brittain, Erich Maria Remarque, Edmund Blunden, Mary Lee, Malcolm Cowley, Ezra Pound, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, R.C. Sherriff, Robert Graves, and many, many others. Read more » about Current Main Writing Projects -
Chief Judge Babcock affirms rulings by Magistrate Judge Boland
By Colette Vogele • November 15, 2004 at 4:17 pm
Chief Judge Babcock today affirmed Magistrate Judge Boland's ruling in August in which he granted in part Plaintiff's 56(f) motion and denied the government's motion for a protective order to stay discovery. The order is short and to the point.
This brings to close a rather lengthy series of motions from the summer months. Currently, we are awaiting the government's reply on its summary judgment motion, and we are working to complete discovery. Read more » about Chief Judge Babcock affirms rulings by Magistrate Judge Boland
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Golan v. Holder - Google, Inc. Supreme Court Amicus Brief in support of Golan
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Golan v. Holder - ACLU Supreme Court Amicus Brief in support of Golan
Publication Date:June 21, 2011Publication Type:Litigation BriefAmerican Civil Liberties Union Supreme Court amicus brief in support of Petitioners. Read more » about Golan v. Holder - ACLU Supreme Court Amicus Brief in support of Golan
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Golan v. Holder - Public Domain Interests' Supreme Court Amicus Brief in support of Golan
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Golan v. Holder - The Conductors Guild and The Music Library Association's Supreme Court Amicus Brief in support of Golan
Publication Date:June 20, 2011Publication Type:Litigation Brief
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Associated Press v. Meltwater
Meltwater News ("Meltwater") is a search engine and research tool that allows users to search for and obtain information about news items that have been made publicly available on the Internet. Read more » about Associated Press v. Meltwater
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Cariou v. Prince
We filed an amicus brief in the Second Circuit on behalf of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts urging the appeals court to reverse a district court decision that ignored established fair use principles that many artists rely upon in creating their work. Read more » about Cariou v. Prince
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Golan v. Holder
The FUP filed this suit on behalf of a University of Denver conductor and others, challenging Congress’s restoration of copyright to works that had entered the public domain. Read more » about Golan v. Holder
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Sony v. Tenenbaum
We filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation asking the First Circuit to affirm the district court’s reduced damages award in Sony v. Tenenbaum, a file-sharing case in which a jury originally ordered a college student to pay $675,000 for infringing copyright in 30 songs. Read more » about Sony v. Tenenbaum
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Alcohol in "Flight" puts trademark laws in focus
Date published:November 6, 2012"Trademark laws "don't exist to give companies the right to control and censor movies and TV shows that might happen to include real-world items," said Daniel Nazer, a resident fellow at Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project." Read more » about Alcohol in "Flight" puts trademark laws in focus
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Inspiration Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
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Indicted Megaupload founder plans site reboot
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Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
Date published:October 7, 2012“It would be absurd to say anything manufactured abroad can’t be bought or sold here,” said Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation who specializes in technology issues. Read more » about Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril
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2/2: Jonathan Band - The Path to Settlement in the Google Books Case (Past Event)
February 2, 2010Stanford Law SchoolJonathan Band graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. He was a partner at Morrison and Foerster in Washington DC for 13 years before starting his own legislative and appellate advocacy firm.Please join CIS and SLATA for a discussion of the terms in the amended settlement agreement in the Google Books case. Mr. Read more » about 2/2: Jonathan Band - The Path to Settlement in the Google Books Case
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1/11: RECAP the Law and the Movement to Free Government Records with Stephen Schultze (Past Event)
January 11, 2010Stanford Law SchoolStephen Schultze is Associate Director at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He comes most recently from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. His research focuses on government transparency, telecoms policy, and open source. He holds an M.S. from MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program and a B.A. in Computer Science.Join us for a talk on “RECAP the Law and the Movement to Free Government Records” given by Stephen Schultze, Associate Director at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Read more » about 1/11: RECAP the Law and the Movement to Free Government Records with Stephen Schultze
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10/28: Jonathan Zittrain - Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet (Past Event)
October 28, 2009Stanford Law SchoolJoin us for a talk on Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet by Jonathan Zittrain, Visiting Professor.
Co-hosted by the Robert Crown Law Library and the Center for Internet & Society.
Snacks & Home-baked sweets served! Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch. Read more » about 10/28: Jonathan Zittrain - Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet
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10/12: Speaker Series - Mark Lemley - The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It (Past Event)
October 12, 2009Stanford Law SchoolWidely recognized as a preeminent scholar of intellectual property law, Mark A. Lemley (BA '88) is an accomplished litigator—having litigated cases before the US Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and federal circuit courts—as well as a prolific writer with more than 100 published articles and six books. He has testified numerous times before Congress, the California legislature, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Antitrust Modernization Commission on patent, trade secret, antitrust, and constitutional law matters. He is also a partner and founder in the firm Durie Tangri LLP. Read more » about 10/12: Speaker Series - Mark Lemley - The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It
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First Amendment Architecture - STLR Symposium 2012 - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age (Video)
February 29, 2012
STLR Symposium 2012 - Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society
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Taking Forgetting Seriously - 2012 STLR Symposium - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital (Video)
February 28, 2012
STLR Symposium 2012 - Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society Read more » about Taking Forgetting Seriously - 2012 STLR Symposium - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital (Video)
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First Amendment Architecture - STLR Symposium 2012 - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age (Audio)
February 28, 2012
STLR Symposium 2012 - Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society
February 10, 2012 -
Taking Forgetting Seriously - 2012 STLR Symposium - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age (Audio)
February 28, 2012
STLR Symposium 2012 - Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society Read more » about Taking Forgetting Seriously - 2012 STLR Symposium - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age (Audio)