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Lawyering Up for Autonomy - Technologue
"University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith pointed out that the technology has the potential to reduce incidents of certain types of a…
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“Tool Without A Handle”: Privacy and Regulation – An Expanded Rationale
In the previous blog, I noted that the logical next step in understanding “privacy as fairness” was to examine if it is possible to identify principles that wou…
A Robot Really Committed A Crime: Now What?
It is always fun, and sometimes worrying, to see imagination come to life. I was on a panel last year at UC Berkeley around robotics and law. We talked about so…
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New Year's Resolution: Be better at blogging
I've been a CIS non-resident fellow (or now faculty afflilaite) now for a decade, beginning in 2004. I love being associated with CIS, and many of my close…
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The MLAT roadmap - visualizing how the process actually works
When I first started working on mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), they were seen as the less glamorous, hard-working cousin of extradition treaties. An…
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November 2014 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
November 2014 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2014-november Retrospect is the monthly newsletter o…
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Launching CollabMark Project to Hack Trademarks for Free Culture.
Today, we launched CollabMark — a project to provide information about how open source and free culture communities can use trademarks. A project’s identity is…
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Congress quietly expands surveillance (again)
As Congress winds down for the holidays, it delivers yet another lump of coal for the American people. Contained in the 2015 Intelligence Authorization Act is…
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French High Court Orders to Block The Pirate Bay
A few days ago, France joined the list of countries blocking access to The Pirate Bay. The High Court of Paris ordered ISPs to “implement all necessary measures…
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France: DailyMotion Pays Damages for Late Removal of Infringing Materials
Recently, the Paris Court of Appeals handed down a decision awarding €1.3M in damages to the French commercial TV broadcaster TF1 against DailyMotion, which fai…
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21st century Facebook case results in 19th century Supreme Court arguments
""There's a common misconception that all speech is equally protected by the First Amendment," Hartzog said. "That's simply not true…
Why We Need a Federal Agency on Robotics
The robots are no longer coming; they are here. And the law's response has been lacking. Many believe that the Federal Aviation Administration has overstepp…