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Lawyers Weigh In on Appropriation Art and Fair Use
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Experts Debate Richard Prince Copyright Suit
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Domestic Drones: Coming Soon Over A Home Near You?
Date published:December 15, 2011Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics,spoke with MSNBC.com's Sylvia Wood about how "widespread use of drones domestically seems inevitable."
The Federal Aviation Administration is preparing new rules that could make it easier for law enforcement agencies to use drone aircraft in the U.S., raising concerns about privacy at a time when the aircraft are already conducting surveillance missions in some parts of the country. Read more » about Domestic Drones: Coming Soon Over A Home Near You?
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Privacy, Cybersecurity, IP Bills Elusive, Despite White House Assurances
Date published:December 8, 2011Andrew McLaughlin, Non-Residential Fellow with the Center for Internet and Society, is mentioned by Bryce Baschuk of the Washington Internet Daily in this article on his concern about Congress' effort to "legislate changes to the architecture of the Internet itself." Read more » about Privacy, Cybersecurity, IP Bills Elusive, Despite White House Assurances
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Police Employ Predator Drone Spy Planes On Home Front
Date published:December 8, 2011Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, spoke with the Los Angeles Times Brian Bennett to discuss law enforcements use of drones and how it could potentially push the boundaries of privacy. Read more » about Police Employ Predator Drone Spy Planes On Home Front
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Will Facebook Get Serious About Online Privacy?
Date published:November 29, 2011Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, is interviewed in this Marketplace interview about the main obligations Facebook needs to give it's customers in regards to online privacy.
Kai Ryssdal: We can debate all day long whether there's any such thing as real online privacy in this digital day and age, but we do like to believe there is. Which is why we tend to get upset with companies that take that belief for granted. Read more » about Will Facebook Get Serious About Online Privacy?
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F.T.C. Settles Privacy Issue At Facebook
Date published:November 29, 2011Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, spoke with Somini Sengupta of the New York Times on the settlement between Facebook and the F.T.C. and how it was necessary for the upcoming I.P.O.
Accusing Facebook of engaging in "unfair and deceptive" practices, the federal government on Tuesday announced a broad settlement that requires the company to respect the privacy wishes of its users and subjects it to regular privacy audits for the next 20 years. Read more » about F.T.C. Settles Privacy Issue At Facebook
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Anonymity and Incivility on the Internet
Date published:November 21, 2011Readers debate the benefits and drawbacks of requiring real names in online postings. Read more » about Anonymity and Incivility on the Internet
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The Drone Threat To Privacy
Date published:November 14, 2011Ryan Calo, CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics, is quoted by John Villasenor of Scientific American on how the widespread use of drones may actually help privacy law through a backlash that he thinks will result in increased privacy protections.
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on security and privacy during the age of drone warfare. Part one is available here. Read more » about The Drone Threat To Privacy
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Study Finds Sites Leak User Information
Date published:October 19, 2011CIS Student Fellow Jonathan Mayer was mentioned in the following Stanford Daily article by Sandy Huang. The article covered a report authored by Mayer on privacy leaks that occur on highly visited websites.
Privacy leaks occur on 185 of the Internet’s top visited websites, according to a recent study by Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The report was authored by Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student in computer science and at the School of Law. The report was released last Tuesday at a conference in Washington, D.C. hosted by the National Press Club. Read more » about Study Finds Sites Leak User Information
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What's Next For The Electronic Communications Privacy Act?
Date published:October 18, 2011CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics Ryan Calo was interviewed by Marketplace Tech Report's John Moe to discuss potential changes that may be made to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
This week is the 25th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Can a law passed before the birth of the World Wide Web really keep up with the modern world? Read more » about What's Next For The Electronic Communications Privacy Act?
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Should Picasso Be In Public Domain?
Date published:October 11, 2011The argument issued before the Supreme Court by Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, in Golan v. Holder is mentioned in the below BNA article by Tom P. Taylor in which Falzone explains how the government went too far when it revived copyright protections for certain foreign work.
Congress overstepped its bounds in restoring copyrights for foreign works long held in the public domain, including paintings by Picasso and films by Alfred Hitchcock, lawyers told the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 5 (Golan v. Holder, U.S., No. 10-545, argued 10/5/11). Read more » about Should Picasso Be In Public Domain?
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Third-Party Web Trackers and Consumer Privacy
Date published:October 11, 2011Jonathan Mayer outlined tracking of Internet users by third-party Web trackers, focusing on a Stanford University study on the various ways people are tracked unknowingly online. After his speech he answered questions from the audience.
This program was part of a forum on Internet privacy co-sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Consumer Watchdog, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, U.S. PIRG, and World Privacy Forum. Read more » about Third-Party Web Trackers and Consumer Privacy
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U.S. Government Targeted WikiLeaks Volunteer, ISP From Santa Rosa
Date published:October 10, 2011Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project at CIS, spoke with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat's Derek Moore to discuss the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the "disconnect between the federal law that governs electronic privacy and the state of contemporary technology."
“It highlights the disconnect between the federal law that governs electronic privacy and the state of contemporary technology,” said Ryan Calo, a fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.
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Court Weighs Copyrights Of Foreign Works
Date published:October 7, 2011Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, Anthony Falzone's argument before the Supreme Court in the case of Golan v. Holder is featured in the below Daily Journal article by Robert Iafolla Read more » about Court Weighs Copyrights Of Foreign Works
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Copyright Law Challenged
Date published:October 5, 2011Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, is quoted by Jess Barvin in the below Wall Street Journal article on the case of Golan v. Holder, and how because "foreign authors didn't have copyrights at the outset, Congress can't extend them now."
Supreme Court justices riffed on artists from Shostakovich to Jimi Hendrix in arguments Wednesday about whether Congress can grant copyrights to works by foreign authors never before protected in the U.S. Read more » about Copyright Law Challenged
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Equal Protection For Shostakovich? Justices Question Lawyers In Copyright Case
Date published:October 5, 2011A quote by Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, is featured in the below Chronicle of Higher Education article by Marc Perry on Golan v. Holder and how when Congress removed works from the public domain and place them back under copyright protection in 1994 "it devalued the public domain."
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. invoked Jimi Hendrix. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg trumpeted Dmitry Shostakovich. And Justice Stephen G. Breyer plucked out Jewish music from the 1930s. Read more » about Equal Protection For Shostakovich? Justices Question Lawyers In Copyright Case
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In Supreme Court Argument, A Rock Legend Plays A Role
Date published:October 5, 2011Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, is quoted by Adam Liptak in this New York Times article on Golan v. Holder, and how original expression, such as that used by Jimi Hendrix with the national anthem, could be stifled by granting copyright protection to works that had once been in the public domain. Read more » about In Supreme Court Argument, A Rock Legend Plays A Role
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Supreme Court copyright case will decide fate of millions of once-public works
Date published:October 4, 2011CIS Executive Directorof the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone is mentioned in the following Washington Post article by Robert Barnes covering the case of Golan v. Holder which will determine if copyright laws will apply to foreign works in the public domain.
Another school year has begun at the University of Denver music department, renewing a familiar pattern for professor Lawrence Golan. Read more » about Supreme Court copyright case will decide fate of millions of once-public works