Stanford CIS
Ryan Long

Ryan Long

Non-Residential Fellow

Ryan is Vice Chairman of the California Lawyers Association, Licensing & Technology Transactions Group, Intellectual Property Section. Since starting his law practice in 2006, he has been teaming up with clients to create and implement effective strategies to litigate over, or negotiate, sophisticated tech and media transactions. Along the way, he has taught seminars on practical applications of blockchain and other emerging technologies at schools including University of Copenhagen's Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law. He has written for, or has been interviewed by, Gizmodo, The Parallax, and Digital Trends about tech-media issues like the use of artificial intelligence to flag "deep fake" videos. Recently, Ryan was an adjunct professor of media law at Pepperdine Law School. He is currently based in Los Angeles.

Recent articles

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Reining in AI? The E.U. Act

Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is the craze. From pet shop owners to Fortune 500 companies, AI is being used to farm data and analyze facial gestur…

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Patchwork AI Regulations

Introduction Where’s Waldo LLC (“Waldo”), your U.K. based digital advertising company, just got funded. Wonderful news! But it also just received a notice from…

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AI Creations: Legally Protected?

Imagine you just purchased a painting from Sotheby’s called Portrait of Edmond Belamy (“Portrait”) for $432,500. Portrait was AI-generated. Your neighbor Jim ta…

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Robot v. Robot: Should AI Fight Fake News?

Tomorrow morning you get an audio message on your cell phone from The International New York Times: “Jerusalem: 1,400,000 New Coronavirus Cases!” Within minutes…

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How to beat a copycat.

If you run a billion (or even million) dollar brand, does it make sense to spend a few thousand dollars to protect your mark from copycats? Or if you are a song…

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Google privacy. Oxymoron?

If you use Google, have you ever read their privacy policy? If you haven’t, please keep reading. The policy delineates under what circumstances Google can perus…

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FBI v. Apple -- Round 2 . . .

How important is your iPhone privacy? Does it defeat law enforcement's interest in obtaining evidence of child pornography productions from your iPhone? Acc…

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Blockchain -- panacea or bubble?

Blockchain technology is taking the world by storm. From banking to health care, many tout blockchain and the cryptocurrencies it enables as a cure-all. Others…

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Popularity doesn't equal truth.

Popularity doesn't equal truth. And yet Facebook's recent proposal to rank the trustworthiness of news sources based on popularity is loosely equating t…