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The Provision of Means: Dual Use Goods & Corporate Liability
This is Part III of a series on the Doe v. Cisco case pending in the Northern District of California and involving claims that Cisco should be liable for aiding…
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Belgian Court Says That ISPs Must Not Pay a Copyright Levy to Collective Societies
On March 13, 2015, the Distric Court of Brussels decided that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should not pay a copyright levy for communicating to the public…
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The Path of Robotics Law
I have posted a draft of my latest essay, The Path of Robotics Law, on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This essay, written as a response to Ryan Calo's valuable…
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Landmark Intermediary Liability Decision from the Indian Supreme Court
Recently, the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark decision regarding the constitutionality of several provisions included in the Indian Information Technol…
Privacy Vs. Security with Jennifer Granick
In the realm of big data, privacy is a significant, and often controversial, issue. In this clip, Jennifer Granick takes on the alleged trade-off between “priva…
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Welcome to the Manila Intermediary Liability Principles!
A few days ago, digital rights advocates and civil society groups gathered together in Manila and approved the Intermediary Liability Principles. The principles…
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How to defeat Internet bullies
Effective solutions for ending – or even lessening – the abuse and online harassment that happens on the Web have been elusive to say least. But the cause did r…
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#blurred_boundaries
When Shaheen Shariff asked a group of under-18-year-olds whether a teenage girl has the right to object to her boyfriend sharing a nude photo of her with his fr…
Why Bitcoin Matters (To Computer Scientists)
View the full video on YouTube. Talk by Arvind Narayanan at the University of Maryland. Based on a paper-in-progress by Arvind Narayanan and Joseph Bonneau A…
2015 Mitchell Lecture: Who Rules Big Data?
Who Rules Big Data? Law, Knowledge, and Power The Mitchell Lecture, “Who Rules Big Data? Law, Knowledge, and Power,” will explore that question, with special e…
People are freaking out about the Trans Pacific Partnership’s investor dispute settlement system. Why should you care?
The recent leak of a secret chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Investor-State Dispute Settlement system (ISDS) is getting many people on both the left a…
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Quebec human rights commission denounces public misogyny
Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill University whose research focuses on legal issues related to cyber bullying, said the FHRITP phenomenon is par…