On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
Open Access to the Broadband Internet: Technical and Economic Discrimination in Closed Proprietary Networks University of Colorado Law Review, Fall 2000…
The Importance of Open Networks in Sustaining the Digital Revolution -- Paper presented at Progress and Freedom Foundation Forum on Network Neutrality…
Open Communications Platforms: The Physical Infrastructure as the Bedrock of Innovation and Democratic Discourse in the Internet Age -- forthcoming in Journal o…
Today, October 6, 2003, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Brand X Internet Services v. FCC, reversing the FCC's order classifying ca…
Today I learned that students at Swarthmore have formed the Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons, a "computing freedom group dedicated to preservin…
The Center decided I should have my own blog. I've had one toe in the blogosphere, as it were, for almost a year in that I've been posting to the CIS m…
Dan Wielsch explores the evolution of technological architectures and legal institutions, focusing on the socio-legal implications of principles like modulariza…
CIS represents webcasters in the Internet Radio appeals concerning webcasting royalties set by the Librarian of Congress after a CARP arbitration in the Copyrig…
For a not-so-positive survey of the importance of blogs, click here. However, I am not sure how representative the study is. (Why didn't they include Blogge…
Mary Rundle is a fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and a non-resident fellow with the Center for Internet and Societ…
Philip R. Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy. For that, he was the target of a three-year criminal investigation, because the government held that…
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