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.
Publications
Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group - Amicus Brief
Amicus brief filed in the Third Circuit on behalf of Brave New Films urging affirmance of the district court’s finding of fair use and rejection of plaintiff’s DMCA claims. Read more » about Murphy v. Millennium Radio Group - Amicus Brief
Network Neutrality: What a Non-Discrimination Rule Should Look Like
Paper presented at TPRC 2010. October 3, 2010.
Why a non-discrimination rule banning only discrimination that harms competition or harms users is bad, and why we need a non-discrimination rule that bans application-specific discrimination, but allows application-agnostic discrimination
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Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens and NFL, et al. - Amicus Brief
We filed an amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit in support of the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL urging the Fourth Circuit to grant rehearing or rehearing en banc, after a divided panel ruled that the Raven’s incidental use of a copyrighted logo in historical game films was not a fair use. Read more » about Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens and NFL, et al. - Amicus Brief
People Can Be So Fake
People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension to Privacy and Technology Scholarship, 114 PENN STATE LAW REVIEW 809 (2010) Read more » about People Can Be So Fake
Golan v. Holder - Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Order
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that the URAA does not violate our clients' First Amendment rights. Read more » about Golan v. Holder - Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Order
Robots and Privacy
Robots and Privacy, in ROBOT ETHICS: THE ETHICAL AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF ROBOTICS (Patrick Lin et al, eds.) (MIT Press 2012) Read more » about Robots and Privacy
The Case for Online Obscurity
On the Internet, obscure information has a minimal risk of being discovered or understood by unintended recipients. Empirical research demonstrates that Internet users rely on obscurity perhaps more than anything else to protect their privacy. Yet, online obscurity has been largely ignored by courts and lawmakers. In this article, we argue that obscurity is a critical component of online privacy, but it has not been embraced by courts and lawmakers because it has never been adequately defined or conceptualized. Read more » about The Case for Online Obscurity
Salinger v. Colting, et al. - Second Circuit Opinion
Letter from Susan Crawford, Marvin Ammori, and Tim Wu to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
Re: Preserving the Open Internet, GN Docket No. 09-191; Broadband Industry Practices, WC Docket No. 07-52; A National Broadband Plan for Our Future, GN Docket No. 09-51
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