Resources Relevant to Sessions at IGF 2017

Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Intermediary Liability Project
Resources - IGF 2017

The Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is a public interest technology law and policy program at Stanford Law School. In our Intermediary Liability work, we seek to provide high-quality, evidence-based analysis of the law’s impact on human rights and innovation. We welcome opportunities to build on these resources, improve them, or collaborate on Intermediary Liability work with organizations around the world.

• Intermediary Liability Overview Materials

  • The World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap) - a collaboratively developed resource tracking legal developments in countries around the world.

  • Intermediary Liability Analysis - including CIS white paper on Intermediary Liability models; and blog posts on US and EU legal developments, monitoring requirements, counternotice systems, empirical research, and more.
     

• Internet Jurisdiction Materials

  • Law, Borders, and Speech Conference: Proceedings and Materials - cutting edge thinking about cross-border content restrictions, including Canada’s 2017 global de-listing ruling and the CJEU’s pending “Right to Be Forgotten” case.

  • Analysis of New Developments - Blog posts tracking current developments in cross-border content regulation and law enforcement access to user data.
     

• “Right to Be Forgotten” Materials

  • The Right Tools: Europe's Intermediary Liability Laws and the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation - rights-based analysis of new notice and de-listing issues arising from the GDPR.

  • The “Right to Be Forgotten” and Blocking Orders under the American Convention: Emerging Issues in Intermediary Liability and Human Rights - Stanford Student Policy Lab report to the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. (Partial Spanish translation pending).

  • Europe’s “Right to Be Forgotten” in Latin America - chapter analyzing divergent legal and human rights frameworks in Towards an Internet Free of Censorship II: Perspectives in Latin America, in English and Spanish.